In walked luck and you looked in time…
Following on from the recent sale of the unreleased Dance album proof cover, which sold for a paltry £190 GBP in August, (08.08.2008 NEWS: ULTRA RARE BOWIE PROOF GOES FOR A SONG) a couple more very nice items have gone on eBay recently for what I personally believe to be at prices far below their true value.
Of course, you could argue that the price something sells for on eBay must be close to its true value, but regular eBay bidders know how this very often just isn’t the case…sometimes particularly rare items just seem to slip under the radar.
One such item that didn’t slip under BowieNetter maarten‘s radar was the above RCA promotional 12″ from 1977.
Apparently part of The RCA Segue Series, the record contains David Bowie’s Sound And Vision segued into Iggy Pop‘s Sister Midnight. The A side is stereo and the B side contains a mono version of the same thing.
I’m sure there are people out there familiar with this issue, but all of the collectors I have spoken to have never heard of it…including myself.
Had this been the only copy I had ever seen I may have been a little more suspicious of it as the label doesn’t seem particularly well printed. However, it’s possibly just a poor scan as a copy sold on eBay for $100 USD back in June with a better reproduction of the label.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the item is legit as it still seems strange that nobody had heard of it in over thirty years then suddenly two surface in the space of four months. Despite this, I’m keeping an open mind at the moment as there is evidence of another release in the series from 1978 by Vicki Sue Robinson.
Anyway, Maarten won this latest copy for a credit-crunch friendly $45 USD using eBay’s Buy It Now feature, which, if this record is legit, is a bargain indeed. I look forward to his verdict once he has had a chance to inspect the thing.
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Next up is a copy of the Man Of Words/Man Of Music album on Mercury that sold for $200.00 USD on eBay. That in itself is a pretty good price for the album in this condition. However, it’s what came with it that made it such a good buy…
Aside from the album, (which also contained a very rare Mercury records return card) there was a 10×8 Mercury promotional photo. A very desirable collectable made all the more valuable by what seems to be a genuine Bowie signature from the time.
You can see the signature quite clearly in the inset above and apparently the message from David reads: “To Sharon, a photo, Bowie”. I believe that had more Bowie collectors noticed this signed picture the auction may have realised two to three times the sum it did.
Hopefully I’ll be able to make this a regular feature on these pages, though I would prefer to see totalblamblam as the successful bidder in auctions such as these in the future!