I thought it might be fun to hear about records in your collection that have history behind them. I’ll start it out…
About ten years ago, I would scour eBay for batches of old 78s to play on my acoustic phonograph. I wouldn’t pick and choose titles, I’d just depend on the luck of the draw and look for batches that seemed to have lots of interesting stuff. (Shipping is cheaper in a batch.) I saw a batch advertised that had a lot of 12 inch Victor Red Seals… Enrico Caruso and other great opera singers from the beginning of the 20th century. It was cheap so I bid the minimum and won the batch. Before the seller shipped, I asked him if he had any other 78s he’d like to sell so it could all go in one box. He asked me my interest and if I was a dealer, and I explained that I had just bought a beautiful Walnut Brunswick phonograph and I was looking for records to play on it. He PMed me back and said that he had one album binder of records but they were very special. He had no way to play them, » Continue Reading.