In Reply to: Met an in-law family's friend who has an amazing collection of 78s: posted by tinear on July 15, 2014 at 20:05:43:
mostly based in Asian countries. Gives a new meaning to specialist, and specialty market.
The usual suspects - artist, label, piece and performance all play into the
value and desirability of the piece (as in the record).
If I had to guess, they may be interested in 1/1,000 78's that come their way.
And - condition, condition, condition is paramount.
How one contacts these specialists I'm not sure.
The Casals linked are just a sampling of what would interest them.
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Follow Ups
- Casals? There's a small, focused interest in classical 78's... - musetap 11:40:32 07/16/14 (9)
- RE: Casals? There's a small, focused interest in classical 78's... - rbolaw 15:02:46 07/16/14 (8)
- I completely agree... - musetap 15:50:46 07/16/14 (0)
- Ysaye 78s--maybe not so valuable - pbarach 15:48:29 07/16/14 (6)
- Also, the Ysaye you link to is just a CD reiusse - rbolaw 09:30:10 07/17/14 (0)
- RE: Ysaye 78s--maybe not so valuable - rbolaw 20:26:18 07/16/14 (4)
- RE: Ysaye 78s--maybe not so valuable - SLee 22:21:55 07/16/14 (3)
- Yes, that's right - rbolaw 07:11:30 07/17/14 (2)
- not worth nothing! - pbarach 14:58:53 07/17/14 (1)
- Agree 100 percent. nt - rbolaw 17:41:32 07/17/14 (0)