Sold Date: October 1, 2023
Start Date: September 24, 2023
Final Price: $51.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 3
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I have for sale a very nice set of Ken Nordine vinyl albums.  I've play tested all 3 and the only skip I found was in the first song of side 2 of Stare With Your Ears.  Note - I've tried to show exactly what sort of scratches there are in Word Jazz and Colors, though none of those scratches are audible and they don't cause skips.  Details on each album below:
Word Jazz:  Cat DLP 3075, Dot records.  Original 1957 release.  Cover shows a good bit of wear - noticeable ring wear, 3 inch rip in top of cover where the two sides have separated, and a spot in the spine where the record has punched through.  I can't grade the cover at anything more than Good.  Inner sleeve is missing and has been replaced with a plastic one.  Record itself play tested fine, with some groove noise which you'd expect for a 65+ year old record.  No significant scratches in the record, though there are a few marks around the hole in the middle where people have struggled to get it onto the turntable.  Record is VG. Colors:  Cat PHS 600-224, on Philips Stereo.  Original 1967 Stereo release (not the earlier mono release), marked "2/600224 A 1 MR" on side A and "2/600224 B 1 MR 1 D" on side B.  Actually, it kind of looks like "... MR 11 D" on side B, but those runouts can be tough to read sometimes.  Cover has one noticeably blunted corner (lower left) and light shelf\ring wear.  I'd still call it VG.  Inner sleeve has been punched through by the record, and shows a fold in one corner that happened sometime in the past.  I'd grade it VG-.  Side 1 of the record is in fantastic shape - no real condition issues at all.  Side 2 has 3 or 4 mild scratches in it.  Thankfully, they don't affect playback at all.  I'd grade it VG. Stare with your Ears (gatefold).  Cat SR 1001, on Snail records.  Cover has a wrinkle right down the center of the eye to the bottom edge.  corners are only lightly blunted.  One spot of damage to spine right in the middle of the word "With" where it looks like someone scratched some of the glossy printing off with a fingernail.  Mild ring wear on back of record.  I'd grade it VG-.  Inner sleeve is present with no punch throughs, though it's just a plain white one.  Record looks like it's the best of the 3, with only the lightest of scratches present.  However, there's a tiny skip in the first song on side 2.  I'd grade it VG-. Let me know if you want the runout markings from Word Jazz or Stare.
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