RCA Living Stereo Original Shaded Dog LSC 2449 1S/1S Gounod Faust Bizet Carmen

$

472

Please see all my auctions this week. I’ve put up a batch of outstanding original, early RCA Living Stereo Shaded Dog releases along with a couple Mercury Living Presence LPs and two still sealed RCA Stereo Action records. This isn’t my collecting area, but in over 20 years of collecting, I kept an eye out for top quality LPs of this sort. All the RCA Shaded Dogs and Mercurys are in absolute top condition, featuring clean, glossy vinyl, usually without so much as a single spindle mark! These are all, literally, the best I’ve ever seen! And no reserve on any of them!

Note: All photos are of the actual records for sale. I have not yet mastered the art of taking photos of record albums, so please forgive my less than ideal pictures. Attempts with flash had horrible glare, and under regular lighting my camera compensates by toning down some of the colors.Please note all the colors on covers and labels are deep and bright and exactly what you’d expect in these high grades!

This Record:

RCA Living Stereo Original Shaded Dog LSC 2449 Gounod Faust / Bizet Carmen

Stampers: 1S/1S

Condition:

Vinyl: I play tested this one, and it sounds fantastic! Loud and strong with just a few faint ticks or crackles--no clicks or pops! Beautiful, glossy VG++ with just a couple light scuffs and two light marks on side 2 that are not audible

Cover: Nice and glossy with bright deep colors (my photo makes this one look much lighter than it is--it is the nice deep red you'd expect), small two inch seam split, center bottom (see photo), a light color breaking "scratch" to the right, sticker in upper corner, but still a really attractive VG+/VG++

NO RESERVE!

Bidder policy: Due to a recent problem bidder, absolutely no “zero feedback” bidders will be allowed. Any and all bids by zero feedback bidders will be canceled and the bidders blocked. Bidders with less than 15 feedback need to contact me first if you wish to bid, or your bids will be canceled as well.

SHIPPING FOR LPs

USA: $4 for USPS Media Mail, combine shipping, just +$1 for each additional record. $9 for USPS Priority Mail and +$2 for each additional record. Insurance optional, and extra charge.

International Airmail: $20 First Class International, combine shipping just +$5 for each additional record. ALL items (or combined package totals) over $100 or weighing more than 4 pounds must be shipped Express Mail International for signature required, $38 base rate +$5 for each additional record.

Canada: $10 +$6 for each additional record.

Important update--added 3/1/2013: After a helpful question from a bidder, I was able to locate more information in the dead wax of the RCA Shaded Dogs I have listed this week. I have checked them all, and every Shaded Dog that I've listed has an upper case "I" in the dead wax on both sides. EVERY SHADED DOG I have up this week is an INDIANAPOLIS PRESSING!