[78-L] Can't believe it !!!

[David Lennick]

And of course those of us who've known which institutions throw them out have 
been salvaging them for years (not these days though).

dl

On 2/24/2014 2:35 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> When I was a kid my mother bought me 25 of them at a buck apiece.  I
> think they retailed individually at $1.25 U.S.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [78-L] Can't believe it !!!
> From: Iñigo_Cubillo<ice261263 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, February 24, 2014 2:19 pm
> To: 78-l<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
> Recently I approached a bookbinder's workshop in search of newly made
> record albums.
>
> I carried with me one of those brown Decca albums bounded with screws,
> etc,
> as a model to copy. I believe this is a good album system, as far as
> they
> have resisted well the last 70 years. It seems cheap and easy to made.
> In
> Spain they use that kind of lids and bounding system with screws, for
> many
> documents.
> All good except for the quality of the cardboard sleeves that Decca used
> back in the 40s, which is that brown stuff that tends to get darker and
> tear apart.
>
> I showed to the guy at the workshop the whole system, and left there the
> album simply to copy it and give me and assessment of the cost for 170
> units (with better quality cardboard sleeves, and without the artwork
> pressed in the lids, Morocco style).
>
> $70/each. That is what I got... !!! The original was bought at Nauck's
> at $5 a piece...
>
> I would have to make the albums myself.
>
> Inigo