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Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:59 pm
by JerryVan
Curt A wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:52 pm
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.
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:06 pm
by 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.
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:15 pm
by JerryVan
There are some records which I prefer to be broken.
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:56 pm
by Edisonfan
JerryVan wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:15 pm
There are some records which I prefer to be broken.
Oh you’re a
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:43 pm
by jamiegramo
JerryVan wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 9:45 am
jamiegramo wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 7:38 am
Edisonfan wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:30 pm
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?
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 4:27 am
by epigramophone
Curt A wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:52 pm
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.
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 9:12 am
by edisonplayer
Why they'd sell broken records is beyond me! edisonplayer.
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 9:33 am
by 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!
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:45 pm
by Edisonfan
epigramophone wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 4:27 am
Curt A wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:52 pm
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.
Re: Broken Records being sold on eBay
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 3:10 pm
by Curt A
Edisonfan wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:45 pm
epigramophone wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 4:27 am
Curt A wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:52 pm
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...
