RCA Victor Red Seal 78 Records


I have a question that I am sure someone in the Audiogon community can answer. My mother-in-law passed away. She had a few RCA red label 78 records in very good to excellent condition. I am wondering what I can do with them? Are they worth anything to anyone? For example, there is a 3-record set of Chopin Les Sulphides with the London Philharmonic. There is another set of records with Enrico Caruso singing O Sole Min and Rigoletto, an early Frank Sinatra singing Stormy Weather and Old Man River (this one is red label Columbia records), Ignace Jan Paderewki playing Chopin Polonaise in A Flat Minor, a Harmonia Records Corp recording of a Tango by Juan Vicari, a Columbia recording of Oklahoma by Andre Kostelanetz, a RCA recording of Jan Pierce, more Chopin with Jose Iturbi on piano, and Addinsell Warsaw Concerto with the LSO. They are very heavy and I am moving so selling them would be ideal. 

If anyone has any advice as to what or how or how much etc., I would love to hear. Thanks!!! Rinpoche
rinpoche
Get yourself as good condition phonograph as you can afford and play them. Seriously.
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Nostalgia!!  

 I grew up in the Sonoran Desert (no electricity) and cut my Classical teeth on the Victor RCA Red Seal 12' 78s.  We had a wind-up Victrola, and used cactus needles, as we thought the steel ones would sooner or later ruin the records.

 If I remember correctly, many of the performances on the Red Seals were transferred to the very early LPs; however, some were lost due to copyright and other legal issues. 

In my mind, I can still hear Caruso's voice. Unfortunately, those performances are only memories. 

Yeah, Elizabeth is correct,   (sob!)

The Old Fud