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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on December 10, 2006 10:36:47 AM new
Holy smokes! I could retire on that easily I think, What a story. Be nice if you had a few choice albums huh?
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posted on December 10, 2006 11:03:31 AM new
What a story!!
My hubby has over 10,000 albums - mostly rock.
I know there are some real valuable albums out there but it's not an area for the beginner.
A few years ago I was giving my husband a little bit of grief for buying so many albums, so when he found a Beatle's album at a garage sale for $1.00, he said I could sell it if I could get at least $20 for it.
I did a quick ebay search and found the same album had just sold for $400.00. The seller had stated that it was a rare Stereo copy and only 6 or so had been found todate.
Ours was stereo as well so I wrote the seller and he was nice enough to tell me what to look for - we had a winner!!! It was missing the sleeve and had an inch long scratch so we only got $600 for it. Had I not seen that one sell for that much - I guess I would have listed it for $19.99 and sold it for that.
Needless to say my husband can buy all the albums he wants now.
posted on December 11, 2006 10:21:11 AM new
Hope you're right, deja. I find the fun , if not the money, is in the research. Had a teaser this morning: a nice Detroit Publishing Co. postcard (circa 1910) titled "The handorgan man in Hepzibath's Day. Handwritten on the front: "Program held a few year's back". Tried to find out more about "Hepzibath's Day" but Google only found others who were pondering the same postcard. I was a little bothered by the outfits, which were more circa 1850 than 1910. Also, the word choice of "in" instead of "on" bothered me. Could this be a reenactment? Searching my brain cells dedicated to worthless trivia, I remembered a Hepzibah in The House of the Seven Gables. I found a searchable online version of the novel, did a search on "organ" and found the exact scene depicted. Mystery solved, but will it pay for my research time? I guess some things you do for the love of it.
