ANTIQUEHAVEN

I go on house visits all the time where family members immediately steer me to what they feel is valuable. Inevitably, I ask to look around and peek into desks, corners of garages, behind basement bars and yes... into record cabinets. What often is discovered are the real treasures and valuables that the family dismissed as junk or as of no consequence. Recently, I was hired to hand-pick liquidate a partial estate. To my delight, I found 7 old and scarce vogue picture discs that were issued by Mercury Records as disc jockey copies only. Both sides of the disc depict "Little Eddie" the Mercury Man. Vouge records were made by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, MI from 1946-1947. They were "unbreakable" and as a novelty, had very attractive art work or photos on both sides. Today these picture discs are highly collectible. Unbeknownst to the family, their 7 discs mixed among standard 78's will fetch over $4,500. As a professional, my job is to try and find "hidde