Broken Records being sold on eBay

[JerryVan]

Maybe you can grind them up, add alcohol and make black shellac...

You're aware that some folks have done just that? I worked with a guy whose grandfather "made" shellac that way.

[vintagetenor]

Earlier this year, a Ma Rainey Paramount with four cracks sold on Ebay for $19.

There is a market for desirable records that are damaged.

[JerryVan]

There are some records which I prefer to be broken.

[Edisonfan]

There are some records which I prefer to be broken.

Oh you’re a

[jamiegramo]

Didn’t the Victor Talking Machine Company sell a jigsaw puzzle, at one time?

Victor had some great jigsaw puzzles.

Some very interesting puzzle piece shapes in there.

A puzzle within a puzzle. Can you spot the word ‘VICTOR’ also a piece shaped like a dog and one like a gramophone?

[epigramophone]

Maybe you can grind them up, add alcohol and make black shellac...

I have seen it done on an antique restoration TV series, and it worked well on a Chinese lacquer cabinet.

[edisonplayer]

Why they'd sell broken records is beyond me! edisonplayer.

[Lah Ca]

Broken records can also become art supplies.

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But that aside, I was out for a walk earlier this summer, and I found a couple of boxes of 78s among the left-overs from a garage/yard sale (similar concept to a UK boot sale). All the stuff had been put out at the curb for free. Unfortunately, kids had found the boxes before I did, and they seemed to have found great delight in smashing the records. The street and sidewalk was littered with shards. I guess at one point they got bored of smahing individual records and just took to dropping or tossing albums.

So I now have some extremely rare and highly sought after Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, and Tommy Dorsey third or fourth cash-grab iteration greatest hits repackaging reissue 78 albums. Yes, every record in the sets is broken, but, hey, all the shards and micro-fragments were caught in the album sleeves. I will be putting them up on EBay tomorrow. A complete steal at $1,000.00 each!

[Edisonfan]

Maybe you can grind them up, add alcohol and make black shellac...

I have seen it done on an antique restoration TV series, and it worked well on a Chinese lacquer cabinet.

How would you grind up a shellac record? I know some of the early 78’s from the acoustic era were pretty tough.

[Curt A]

Maybe you can grind them up, add alcohol and make black shellac...

How would you grind up a shellac record? I know some of the early 78’s from the acoustic era were pretty tough.

I would use a small sledgehammer and pulverize them...