Giving your records away is certainly an option, but not always easy to do. But don’t expect to get more than 5 to 50 cents per record (less if you have a large quantity of them). You might find a local antique dealer or flea market that would give you a few dollars, or try offering them on Craigslist. And even if you find a buyer, you will likely find that the effort to list, pack and ship them is much more trouble than they are worth.
EBay is loaded with worthless records being offered by people trying to clean out their closets. If you don’t have valuable records, you will find it very difficult to sell them. Click here for a short video about vintage record valuesĪssuming you have obtained a copy of our want list and determined that you have nothing of value, you could either try to sell them locally, give them away or toss them in a dumpster.
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You may acquire a copy of this brochure by sending $2 (cash or check) plus a legal-sized #10 SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) to the address in the page footer below. We offer a want list that describes the various types of records that may be valuable, and tells generally what we pay for them. Our recommendation is that you check out any group of records before disposing of them, just to make sure that you have nothing of significant value. Cylinder records are plentiful, though there are certain types, brands and artists highly desired by collectors. Genres more likely to have value will include early jazz, blues and hillbilly music from the 1925-35 era, very early operatic and classical records produced overseas, and special types of records such as picture discs, rare labels, early 7" records and other uncommon categories. Generally speaking, most records in the following categories have little value: big band, popular songs (including Bing Crosby), ethnic recordings, classical, opera (including Caruso), post-war country, sacred selections and album sets. Records were pressed by the bazillions, and there are many more records in existence than there are collectors seeking them.
This is because the great majority of vintage records (like coins, stamps, postcards, comic books and other collectibles) are very common. To be truthful, unless you are a serious collector or have inherited an important collection, most of your records probably have little if any value. These recordings should not be confused with piano rolls, which are made of rolled paper punched with small holes. Most cylinders are about the size of a toilet paper tube, and are usually colored black or blue. Vintage phono cylinders were made from around 1890 to 1929, and came in several different sizes.
We DO NOT deal in microgroove recordings. Most non-vintage records were made from vinyl. Formats include 7" 45 rpm discs with oversized spindle holes, 10" and 12" long plays (LPs, aka "albums"), extended plays (EPs) and others. They are commonly referred to as micro-groove records, and play at 45 or 33.3 rpm. Non-vintage disc records were made from 1949 to the present. Most vintage disc records were made from a shellac-based material, though vinyl discs began to appear in the post WW II era.
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(Edison Diamond Disc records play at 80.) Other vintage disc records include radio transcriptions (78 or 33 rpm, often 16" in diameter), movie soundtrack discs (33 rpm, 16") and Victor Program Transcriptions (10" & 12", 33 rpm). However, the 78 speed was not fully standardized until the early 1930s prior to this time, playing speeds ranged anywhere from around 60 to 130 rpm! Most of the pre-1925 records one encounters today will play properly at speeds ranging from 72-82 rpm. Most commonly, however, vintage disc records are referred to as ‘78s’, referring to the speed of 78 revolutions per minute (rpm). In some countries they are referred to as coarse-groove or short play (SP) records. Vintage discs were made roughly from 1890 to 1960. Vintage records fall into two categories: disc and cylinder.