Showing posts with label records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label records. Show all posts

Records


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Records are one of the collectibles that can be enjoyed in their original manner. in my previous post i touched on the subject of gramophones, and today it is only appropriate that we discuss records for they go hand in hand.

The earliest records were Thomas Edison's tinfoil cylinder and which was replaced by waxy material until 1910.

The first circular records were vulcanised rubber discs with their galvano-plastic coating, which were patented along with beliner's gramophone in 1887.

What should you collect? well as with most things, it is really best to specialize. if you select something from the period of 1920 onwards, it would prove to be a valuable collection. specifically the swing records of the year between world wars.

If you like modern jazz you might like to collect records of Ella fitzgerald, Dizzie Gillespie, Stan Getz and the like. They are a must from the forties.

Then there are the crooners such as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Vic Damone, Perry Como. Their records must surely appreciate in value.

How about records of Mario Lanza? The early rock n roll years. If you can discover a pile of early rock and roll records, i'll bet you can make your pile.

Although, re -recording is now so common and the sound quality of these copies are so good( and not to mention cd, ipod that music is easily available), that the age of the record, i mean the record itself is now of interest only to the true collector and this reduces the possibilities of records as an investment.

Remember for all your collecting ideas drop by Rare Antiques Collectibles and Memorabilia.

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