On eBay: Miles and Miles and Mobley
Here’s a seller with some really nice items on eBay now, including: Hank Mobley, Blue Note 1568. This is an original pressing. The vinyl is in VG+ condition and the cover is M-. This is one of the rare ones. It is already more than $1,000 with three days to go. From the same seller: Introducing Kenny Burrell, Blue Note 1523. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing with the deep grooves, flat edge, etc. The vinyl is listed as VG+ and the cover is listed as VG. The current price is about $130. It will sell for more. Promise.
Also, the seller bullsite2000 is back with some nice Miles Davis jazz vinyl, including: Miles Davis Volume 1, Blue Note 1501. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing in what looks to be beautiful pristine condition. It is already at more than $250, with three days to go. Check out the other Miles records from this seller after you click on this one.
If someone could tell Larry Cohn about that first auction. There are some great repressings in there & he seems to have the original sleeves in them for actually dating some of those.
I have been watching the auctions of the Hank Mobley seller (funkyou) for a few years now. For quite some time, this seller would amass a pile of rare records (20-30 LPs) in the jazz and funk genres and then list them all as one auction because the condition of the records and jackets would all be VG/VG+. He did this every few weeks for the longest time. Even then, he would fetch high prices for a pile of rare, scratchy Blue Notes.
Please note, seller (funk you) has a lot of great originals, especially Blue Notes. He has gone to the trouble of listing the ‘ear’ for Plastilyte pressings. There are some in there that are pressed at Liberty plants that are no dg NYUSA, no ear, most even have original sleeves to date their era. At that, happy bidding.