We Buy Classical LPs

We are always keen to buy quality, saleable classical LPs. We travel the length and breadth of the country to collect quality collections and pay top prices for desirable LPs. We generally only buy UK pressings (plus German DG and Dutch Philips) - we will collect large collections in the UK and import by post from other countries. We do not generally buy US pressings or import large collections from abroad because of the prohibitive shipping costs.

If you have a collection you wish to sell, please get in contact with us. If you have them catalouged in a document, please send that. If not, it is helpful if you could supply some information:

1) Approximate number of records in the collection (50, several hundred, several thousand?)
2) Approximate age of the collection, eg. mid 1950s to early 1970s (please note a date on the record sleeve itself will probably not be the date of issue, but the copyright date of the recording on a later reissue - most of the original issues up until the early 1960s did not have a date on them at all)
3) Your Location and ideally a phone number so we can call with any questions
d) Some idea of the content of the collection (see next page) If you can, it would be helpful if you could include a summary of some of the main labels. For example, 'I have about 400 records including 19 SXL 2000s, 23 Columbia SAX and 11 early HMV ASDs'.
We buy complete collections which have a reasonable percentage of collectable records (for example, the above example would probably be worth buying, but a 400 record collection with 2 SXL 2000s and 1 Columbia SAX probably wouldn't - but it all depends on the actual records in the collection).
You might like to read this article on selling classical record collections published in a record colletors magazine a few years ago - it is written by an American dealer, but it all applies to UK collections. Incidentally, we do pay more for collectable records than the example used in the article.

We are also keen to buy from experienced collectors wishing to trade their records and individuals who go out looking for records. Maybe you go out buying rock/pop LPs, or enjoy browsing in secondhand shops. See the next page for details of what to look out for.

Please note, we buy only Classical LP records (33 1/3 rpm)

We do not buy 78s
We do not buy Easy Listening
We do not buy Musicals/Shows