Saturday, June 30, 2007

Record Collecting Update Week Ending 06/30/2007






Some ghosts came out to play this week, with a number of records selling in the $2k range, and interestingly the value on some of them had nothing to do with music.

A tie this week for top seller on eBay, two records sold for $2500.00 with 1 bid each, meeting their initial asking prices. First was a Northern Soul 45 RPM record from Second Ressurrection on the Stanson Label, "You Done Let Daylight Catch You"/"Smoke In The Disco". And next was an original on DOT (only a little over a hundred were pressed) of Jack Kerouac's "Poetry For The Beat Generation".

Right behind the top seller, a private press sixties folk LP, "David Wiffen At The Bunkhouse", sold for $2425.00 with 14 bids from a starting bid of $98.00. Andy Warhol cover art brought in $2325.00 for Mozart 4 Divertimenti on Epic. The record received 27 bids from a starting bid of $25.00.

Next, a resurgence in 78 RPM interest may be in the making, as two showed up this week as top sellers. For more than a month, 78's have made the top five more weeks than not. Ferman Tapp and His Banjo with "Gonna Find Myself A Brand New Sweetie" b/w Kid Brown and Ginger Snapps "Tell Me Why" sold for $2325.00 from a starting bid of $56.00 with 23 bids. And, a Jaybird Coleman blues harp 78 record, "Man Trouble Blues" / "Coffee Grinder Blues" sold for $2225.00 with 11 bids from a starting bid of $9.95.

And finally, while the stock market inspires basements and dens full of idiots to pump a price on a catchy press release or turn of phrase broadcast over a plasma television, the record collecting market suffers few hoseballs, and nutures much paranoia. A possibly perfect, possibly sealed (possibly not authentic) Beatle butcher block - one for the Goldmine standard . . . sealed . . . untouched . . . mint - sold for a pathetic $2175.00.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would you please stop referring to the original cover for the Beatles' Yesterday and Today album as the "butcher block" cover?
It is, and always has been known by collectors as the butcher cover. There is no block.

Unknown said...

Someone had to cut up those damn baby's somewhere! Google has 10,600 references to the record as a "butcher block". Though I'm not sure why its used or where it came from (I first heard it from a Beatle collector), it does seem like acceptable nomenclature. However, hence forth I will drop the "block" as there is no block in the picture.