Sonnys Crib, No Deep Groove, At What Price?
Lots of focus on Blue Note this week. Sometimes, that’s just the way things break. Here’s one of interest, closing soon: Sonny Clark, Sonny’s Crib, Blue Note 1576. This, of course, is one of the hot ones, featuring John Coltrane. This one has the West 63rd Street address, is mono and seems to be in pristine condition. Yet . . . it is not a deep-groove pressing. So, what’s it worth? The seller has a buy-it-now price of $1,000 — or you can make an offer — and there are two hours to go, so it seems unlikely that he will get his asking price. If this was a deep-groove copy in this condition, at $1,000 it would have been gobbled up long ago. Without the deep groove, all bets are off. Isn’t it interesting how specific the market has become. One of our loyal readers commented on another post about a John Jenkins Blue Note he purchased from us, probably for around $15 o $20. It was a United Artists mono pressing and he is quite pleased and getting a lot of joy out of it. And he didn’t need to get a second mortgage on his home.
Speaking of Blue Notes, we have three closing soon, including the nice Grachan Moncur and a Freddie Hubbard. You can click on Items For Sale above to see our complete list. — al
On this record, the seller says he will not ship to Italy. I’ve seen this from other sellers as well. I have been shipping to Italy for years and have several good customers over there. I haven’t had any problems. What kinds of problems have other sellers encountered that they won’t ship there anymore?
At the beginning of the U.S. war against Irak, I noticed that many U.S. sellers for no given reason wouldn’t sell to French customers. These restrictions have now been lifted. They were against EBay policy anyway.
Present day restrictions for non-delivery reasons I see most include Italy, France and the Russian Federation.
I am regularly supplying to Italy and the Russian Federation with registered mail and never got any complaint.
The only problems of non-delivery (parcels lost) I encountered with the U.K. Royal Mail is notoriously unreliable. But it is no reason for me not to ship to the U.K.