to the market
the owner has been told Oh this one is very unique and rare a thousand
times.
Eric Stott
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From: Patrick Gunn pgvancou...@yahoo.com
To: phon...@oldcrank.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975...
I recently acquired
Here's another fun way to look at it. $100 in 1975 equates to $344 in
2004.
Loran
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:18, Eric Stott wrote:
Believe it or not, those were not low prices for the time. It was still not
uncommon for great finds to turn up at auctions or come out of farm houses.
Nowadays
Right you are Eric. Some of those prices were not that great. Roughly
speaking, you could multiply them by a factor of four to get the prices in
2004 dollars.
In 1975 I was a senior in high school and I had been in the hobby for about
a year. I started out with an Edison Amberola which was
10, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975...
Here's another fun way to look at it. $100 in 1975 equates to $344 in
2004.
Loran
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:18, Eric Stott wrote:
Believe it or not, those were not low prices for the time. It was still
not
uncommon for great
a way to
dream about old prices
available today.
Dan
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To: Eric Stott est...@localnet.com; Antique
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phon...@oldcrank.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975
will be surprised. Al Menashe
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phon...@oldcrank.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975...
I paid far more
prices
available today.
Dan
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From: Loran T. Hughes lo...@oldcrank.com
To: Eric Stott est...@localnet.com; Antique
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phon...@oldcrank.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975...
Here's
That's a great question that could apply to anything we collect, or even
if we decide to hold a garage sale. Any experts on the list who would
like to share the general guidelines?
Loran
Phillip Sands wrote:
The sad truth is that if you accumulated your
collection in the 60's and 70's, as
out reasonably well financially, though that was never
my motivation.
Best regards,
Rene Rondeau
From Zonophone2002 Thu Mar 11 04:04:06 2004
From: Zonophone2002 (zonophone2...@aol.com)
Date: Sun Dec 24 13:10:36 2006
Subject: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975...
Message-ID: d1.73d8472.2d819
it to him this
Sunday.
Thanks Everyone,
keith
-Original Message-
From: Phil O'Keefe [mailto:pokeefe...@ameritech.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:31 PM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975...
Kieth, 2-Minute cylinder phonographs generally don't sell
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 14:37, Phil O'Keefe wrote:
Yeah, a lot of antique dealers are in the wrong line of business.
Amen! What gets me is seeing a piece set in an antique shop for YEARS,
never getting marked down, never moving. Makes you wonder what school of
business they didn't graduate from.
.
Loran
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From bruce78rpm Thu Mar 11 17:10:38 2004
From: bruce78rpm (bruce78rpm)
Date: Sun Dec 24 13:10:36 2006
Subject: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975
My other hobby was collecting railroad memorabilia until the prices got too
far out of line. I used to go to several shows each year and I often saw
this pricing mentality among the dealers. They would buy tables at the show
and they would have the same, rare over-priced stuff on the tables year
This is off topic for phonos but relates to the dealer's not knowing
their business...I went into a local antique shop a couple of years
ago and was looking at the wares when I spied one of those cardboard
display boxes with glass in the lid to display the contents. It
contained what
What gets me is seeing a piece set in an antique shop for YEARS,
never getting marked down, never moving. Makes you wonder what school of
business they didn't graduate from.
Loran
In Europe there was a charming term for items in a shop that just wouldn't
move. Shop Daughters - the
Unfortunately, this happens all of the time in one form or another. How many
times have you
seen a post that states I have this item for sale and what will someone
give me for it?
That is nothing but an auction in disguise. Or, as you experienced, the shop
owner who has to
call someone
I have never considered myself old, but I was buying phonographs in 1975.
I think it is interesting that the prices of the more common items, Edison
Standards and Homes, have not increased too much but the better items,
Victors with wooden horns, have increased in value at a greater rate. I
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