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Found a 1969 pressing with a typo on the label, had no idea that happened
I was flipping through a dollar bin at a flea market outside Dayton last Saturday and grabbed this beat-up copy of a doo-wop comp. When I got home I noticed the label spelled the band's name as 'The Del-Vikings' but the sleeve said 'Dell-Vikings'. Looked it up and apparently this specific misprint came from a small Ohio plant that only ran about 300 copies before someone caught it. I paid $1 and a guy on Discogs offered me $40 for it within two hours of listing. Gotta wonder how many other typo pressings are sitting in those bargain crates. Anyone else stumbled on a label error that turned out to be worth something?
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linda_perry1425d ago
Back in 2018 I grabbed a copy of a Bobby Bland record at a garage sale in Akron for 50 cents, mostly because the cover was rough and I felt bad for it. Got it home and the label had his name printed as "Bobby Bland" on one side but "Bobby Brand" on the other, and the catalog number was off by one digit from what it should've been. Turns out it was a promo run from a plant in Tennessee that got pulled fast, and I ended up selling it on eBay for $85 to a guy in Japan. My advice is to always check the deadwax and the label against the sleeve before you toss anything, because the mismatch is usually the tell. Take that with a grain of salt though, I've also bought plenty of "rare" junk that turned out to be worth exactly the dollar I paid. Your Del-Vikings find sounds like a solid flip either way, especially for a buck.
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