vinyls

I ran what was probably one of the first 'record stalls' at a local charity fair.(Probably where a lot of my 'don't know where that came from' came) Knew nothing about records, but thought it would be a good thing to try to sell, and collected loads. I made a complete catalogue of them and sent this to a collector (Sothebys at Billingsburst advised me on this) and he wrote back to say that he was of course unable to make any true judgement but the Laurel and Hardy ones would be the most valuable amongst our selection, and suggested a price of £10 each (this was in the 1980's). We sold them to a Japanese couple who were happy to pay £15. each for them, wonder what they would be worth today? Incidentally, the way to tell if a record is really valuable is evidently to look for the 'etched' numbers which are just on the blank ring round the outside of the label, this denotes the number of cuttings? for that particular record. Hard to find.

Grey DS is extremely musical and extremely knowledgeable so you obviously have extremely good taste!

nonnie I got rid of three Ray Coniff albums in the aforementioned move only to replace them recently with CDs. DH and I used to play the vinyl ones and dance round the living room! That was before we got rid of the turntable! Now we don't dance, we just listen[.

If you have a first pressing of The White Album it is worth a fortune! I just paid a huge amount for a Bob Dylan one for a DS who is really into vinyl.

Recently he 'discovered' some 'great music from a guy called 'Ray Con-efe' (Connif). Didn't even know how to pronounce it and was surprised I did. I bought him some LPs very cheap from a charity shop.

Our local Vinyl shop had a weekend in aid of Macmillan Cancer just after Bowie died so I expect any LPs of his will now be worth quite a lot.

Pretty sure we no longer have anything valuable as DS has taken his pick.

I could kick myself now. Not long after my divorce I decided to get rid of a load of records at the local Sunday market and of course sold them for a song. I think that some people went home laughing all the way to the bank.

There is a large market for vinyl out there. Someone I knew acquired a large collection of vinyl records - some of them very rare - as a result of her divorce. She sold them piecemeal on eBay, some of them for eye watering amounts of money, and managed to finance a new kitchen out of it! Condition is all, of course, and there's a fair amount of work involved in 'marketing' them. number I wish that I had done that with some of mine. We got rid of them before we moved here, and some of them are not available on cd now.

I would granjura but he lives in Gibraltar. He did say he'd take a look but so far its only been flying visits and no time for a sort out.

A few years ago, my daughter and I shared the cost of one of those machines that transfer vinyl to cd, aand we did all ours and hers, but I still can`t bring myself to dispose of them, they`re still upstairs in a cupboard.

Give the box to your son to sort out Tanith- he will soon know what's what and enjoy it- and sell the rest.

And of course all the French 'classics' - Barbara, Brassens, Brel, Ferrat, Ferré, and many more.

We still have all our vinyls from the 60s and 70s - the Beatles, Stones, Who, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkel, Deep Purple, Led Zep and so many more. Never will get rid- we still have a good turntable and use it too.

My son has been 'into' vinyl for about 10yrs now and has a huge collection, when I said we had a box of his Dads old vinyl to go through and get rid of he said, 'be careful what you get rid of Mum, old vinyl can be valuable nowadays'.
The box is in the loft waiting for me to go through it.