I've no doubt that these items are genuine - not modern day photocopies.
So, how do you value them? Surely we don't all collect Smiths records and other bits and bobs as an investment - we do it because...well, we all do it for all sorts of reasons...
because we must.
But how do you value it? Sure, the Record Collector list from a few years back is a good starting point for the records. But what about other collectables and rarieties?
My own favourite from my own collection is a 3foot by 3foot advertising board that was produced for large HMV stores to promote Strangeways - apparently mine was used in Market St in Manchester. I paid £150 for it, but I think it's priceless, a piece of pop/Manchester history.
There's a member on here who has Morrissey's typewriter - how do you price that? Some of the most important works of art were crafted on that typewriter - if it was Beethoven then middle-class arty types would demand that it'd be worth millions.
Mike is selling these as works of art, or pieces of rock history - how do you price such things - crikey, the BBC paid £60,000 for a tiny metal bird by Tracey Emin and stuck it on a pole in Liverpool and forgot about - £60k and they didn't give a toss about it (
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ird-artwork-in-Liverpool-feared-stolen.html)- if I owned one of these sleeves it would take pride of place in my house and it would have it's own insurance policy.
To be honest, I think that the Manchester Museum (or Urbis) should be buying up this sort of stuff to keep it for the people of Manchester, before it gets bought by collectors in Japan, or the US, or Germany (or wherever) and they are lost forever, kept in living rooms (or bank vaults) never to see the light of day for years.
But, £900? With rising petrol prices, falling house prices, rising food and falling optimism... If I wasn't trying to buy a bigger house, I'd be very temped with some of these.
I think a lot of them will stay up for sale for some time to come
