I have recently come into the possession of an old Victor Victrola VV-IX phonograph and have fallen deeply and madly in love with it. It is a beautiful, wonderful machine which I am not sure I can ever again do without.
That said, it has begun to get lonely. To alleviate it's loneliness and boredom I was able to find on eBay a box of 40 old shellac 78's. 40! For only $40! That's $1 a piece! Cha-ching!
With baited breath I awaited it's arrival. Today was the day! The box arrived! Excitedly, even giddily, I ripped the box open and found... a box of records! This was about what I expected.
What I did not expect, however, was the carnage that resided within, for these records were shipped just as you see. Not all of these resilient soldiers made it through unscathed. Quite the opposite, in fact. In all, 13 records looked like this
or this
or even this:
Now, not all is lost. Despite that more records than I would have liked (which is a grand sum of 0 records) were damaged, there are some positives that I can take from this:
- 27 of the records are in good shape and playable.
- Some of the damaged records are still in mostly good enough shape to be recognisable and can be turned into wall-clocks (I'm thinking Christmas gifts for these)
- That last album - the Victor - can probably easily be reshaped with some heat into a black bat.
- The fellow who shipped them did insure the shipment, so insurance will pay up for the damages.
Now for the fun surprises.
Of the 27 records that are in good shape, four of them are "Vogue Picture Records" from 1946/1947. Vogue records only existed one year before going out of business, but put together absolute works of art that looked like this:
this:
this:
and this:
Each record side has it's own image, so being that there are 4 records, there are 8 images in total. The remaining four sides are at the bottom of this post.
eBay seems to have Vogue records for anywhere between $20-$40 each. I am thinking what I want to do with these is find a clear record case and hang them on the wall, because these are absolutely beautiful. I will not be playing these for fear of ruining them.
I will, however, play the others. For your listening pleasure, here is Bottoms Up.
And for your viewing pleasure, here are the remaining four sides of the Vogue records:
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