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found connie clarke my sugar baby for 10 pounds at a car boot sold it for £1,864 pounds now thats a find.

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We all know that collecting records is weird and wonderful and that’s just the people that collect the damn things. For near as damn it 40 years collecting vinyl has allowed the obsessive in me a

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Ok had to wait till finished early today  and had a rummage in the attic .. have attached picture of mac staten.  Had to wipe the dust of first though.. hope this suffices. Kind regards Mick

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Not me but a bloke close many years ago brought (as he was told by the seller) an item of jewellery said to be a Victorian replica of some I think Celtic design. He had a gut feeling about it and paid £80  that's quite a lot of money to hand over at a car boot sale. Had it checked over and well you've guessed it, any way it made a very large sum of money at auction. Fair play to him

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All that matters to me is that that pic wasn't off discog lol. What do you need a picture of me my 2 sons all holding copies of today's papers while  i hold my record whilst being independently adjuticaded by Mr Manship and a plethora of solicitors? ..just wondering?  

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All that matters to me is that that pic wasn't off discog lol. What do you need a picture of me my 2 sons all holding copies of today's papers while  i hold my record whilst being independently adjuticaded by Mr Manship and a plethora of solicitors? ..just wondering?  

 see you on sat buddy at the allnighter playing downstairs this time in our secound room while you lad is with me in the main room .

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On 11/10/2017 at 22:01, WoodButcher said:

So where's the picture of your copy , instead of the one lifted from Discogs ... !

Ok had to wait till finished early today  and had a rummage in the attic .. have attached picture of mac staten.  Had to wipe the dust of first though.. hope this suffices. Kind regards Mick

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Posted this before but hey ho, not a car boot but found a copy of Herby Brown One more broken heart Blue Ash for 10/20p 1980/81 in a record shop in Chapel Street market  London, looked interesting got it home played it & stuck it in a box for about 30 years. Saw it in a Manship price guide @ 2k :) played it out a couple of times & no one made one comment about it. Bet if I'd played it 10 years later once it was a "big" sound some of those same people would be flocking around :D by then it had gone for a nice little profit. Agreed price of £1600 (Someone abroad) & they cleaned their local bank of Sterling so took  £1590 :thumbsup: 

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Best find in terms of percentage return on investment was back in the late 70's at the local flea market.

Wilbur Walton Jr - 24 hours was covered up and then whilst at Wigan one night it was uncovered. I realised I had seen it a few days before and went back to the market the following week. Paid the princely sum of 5p for it and sold it two days later to a local DJ for £35, which in the late 70's was a good amount of cash.

Crap record though, otherwise I would have kept it :thumbsup:

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We all know that collecting records is weird and wonderful and that’s just the people that collect the damn things.

For near as damn it 40 years collecting vinyl has allowed the obsessive in me a free reign to tick all the boxes any time I want. Vinyl satisfies me on 3 levels – the visual (staring at labels lovingly for hours also known as record porn), the statistical (that entire continual list making and the never ending numbers game) and most importantly the sound, the sound that comes out of them speakers.

Over a good solid 30 year period I once worked out I did an all-nighter a month, every month continual. That’s roughly 360 ish all-nighters and at every one you’d find my legs hanging out of every record box no matter what size - big or small, cheap or expensive it didn’t matter – the lure of filthy vinyl was so strong.

Over a 10 year period I went record hunting in America nearly every year, up and down every road and highway, my footprints were all over the place. I swear I could smell vinyl in the air.

The UK was no different. Record fairs and shops were frequented here, there and everywhere. From Manchester down to London and back up to Leeds again. And all towns big and small in-between.

Every town I visited be it for football or whatever it was compulsory to have a scuttle about through as many charity shops as possible. I couldn’t help myself it was in my blood, it was in my DNA.

Then I started frequenting car boots at the weekends (coming home from all-nighters in the early hours had its advantages as it meant I could gatecrash car boots very early well before the sun started rising).

And you know what over all these years on the road I never found anything of any great value (£150 tops) and I certainly never found any northern rarities. But it’s the thrill of the chase that excites; ya just never know what ya might find. It’s a numbers game pure and simple fuelled by luck. The more you look through the bigger the chance of finding summat. Right time right place so the old saying goes. You’ll never know what you just missed.

That rarity you’ve been chasing could be six inch away, six yards away, six miles away even. Who knows? It’s more fun finding records than filing records.

So for all the money spent, the hours invested and the years turned on the calendar the last 3 most interesting records I’ve picked up (over the last 4-5 months or so) and kept for myself all came from within 15 miles of my house and cost a total of 50p for the lot.

(1) The Stony Island Band (Glades 1751) Released November 1978 the white label promos are double sided featuring “Stony Island Band“on both sides, it’s a pretty well known disco thumper type thing. But tucked away on the issue which must be damn obscure is ‘Peace Of Mind’ a surprisingly good ballad laced with chugging southern horns. 25p from a charity shop near where Todmorden Tim lives.

(2) Raymond Myles “You Made A Man Out Of Me, Baby” (Kent 4541) arranged by legendary Wardell Quezerque and first released locally on Peek-A-Boo Records in New Orleans circa 1970 ish. ‘Sounds like a woman’ said Craig Butler when I played it to him recently. Not brilliant just interesting. Found hidden amongst a job lot freebie of several hundred unwanted records destined for a North Leeds chazza.

(3) Dynamic Superiours “I’m A Looser” (Chapel 1008) Rolled up to a local car boot 5 miles from my house at about 8.30am ish. Only one person had any records for sale. Whilst wading through a yard long box of assorted car boot standards (James Last/ Henry Mancini/Bert Kampfart etc etc) out of the corner of my eye I thought I spotted a 7" record with a pink label sandwiched between some lousy compilation albums. Wow what a superb black gospel harmony group with no mention of the G or J word anywhere. Colbert Productions, Chicago Il 60620 gets printed on the label rim. They operated several labels such as Nike, Mellow (Azie Danfair; A.C. Reed) and Tip Top (Daylighters; Jimmy Burns) throughout the sixties across Chicago. 

Found without a sleeve, label’s water damaged and the vinyl’s thrashed but it plays through no problem.

Yet another 25p Fair Deal Pearson purchase. I smiled and said thank you as I turned and walked away.

Dx

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Just about to leave a charity shop last week after wading through for the second time last weekend a raft of Jim Reeves and James Last albums the woman behind the counter placed a bag in front of me saying "noticed you looking through the records have a look at these they've just come in", I reached in with the first lot out being some 78's, hoping someone on here might be of help as the first one was Sam Cooke Only Sixteen in  as someone quotes " it's birth sleeve". I've asked a few people and looked on the net without luck ,don't know if it's collectable or worth sod all, anyone any idea? Rest of the bag was.........yes more flippin Jim Reeves and James Last.

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Just about to leave a charity shop last week after wading through for the second time last weekend a raft of Jim Reeves and James Last albums the woman behind the counter placed a bag in front of me saying "noticed you looking through the records have a look at these they've just come in", I reached in with the first lot out being some 78's, hoping someone on here might be of help as the first one was Sam Cooke Only Sixteen in  as someone quotes " it's birth sleeve". I've asked a few people and looked on the net without luck ,don't know if it's collectable or worth sod all, anyone any idea? Rest of the bag was.........yes more flippin Jim Reeves and James Last.

It will be worth something bill, depending on condition obviously and label. It was released on keen, hmv and reo as far as I can make out. Either put on ebay or discogs

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7 hours ago, stretfordender said:

It will be worth something bill, depending on condition obviously and label. It was released on keen, hmv and reo as far as I can make out. Either put on ebay or discogs

Found it on Popsike Vance, not a site I've looked at before, sixty quid in 2011 so must be a small profit there somewhere. 

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On 10/11/2017 at 20:57, Derek Pearson said:

(3) Dynamic Superiours “I’m A Looser” (Chapel 1008) Rolled up to a local car boot 5 miles from my house at about 8.30am ish. Only one person had any records for sale. Whilst wading through a yard long box of assorted car boot standards (James Last/ Henry Mancini/Bert Kampfart etc etc) out of the corner of my eye I thought I spotted a 7" record with a pink label sandwiched between some lousy compilation albums. Wow what a superb black gospel harmony group with no mention of the G or J word anywhere. Colbert Productions, Chicago Il 60620 gets printed on the label rim. They operated several labels such as Nike, Mellow (Azie Danfair; A.C. Reed) and Tip Top (Daylighters; Jimmy Burns) throughout the sixties across Chicago. 

Found without a sleeve, label’s water damaged and the vinyl’s thrashed but it plays through no problem.

Yet another 25p Fair Deal Pearson purchase. I smiled and said thank you as I turned and walked away. Dx

Definately on that pew marked Deep Soul. Oh Lord take me home. Dx

 

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IMG_0496.thumb.JPG.dbd52e8feb09c7f7b2ea449f12f18b54.JPGHi all...found these two at a car boot sale,on the same day,just outside Newbury,about 15 years ago....hadn't found much before that or after(Northern-wise)..but I did find the first 17 single releases by The Jam,complete with sleeves and in near perfect condition...:)...IMG_0489.thumb.JPG.ddb79dcbe4d143a0394be9a096d02c70.JPG

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