BUYING BEATLES R.I.A.A. RECORD AWARDS
Retriever Memorabilia welcomes our longstanding and NEW clients. We have established this page with the goal of giving the NEW potential RIAA award collector and as a database for people who are already collecting Beatles memorabilia. We will be putting alot of information on this site i.e. award values both LP AND singles, with explanations about the various pricing, values and the myth's that surround Beatle awards and therefore ALL RIAA awards....AND THERE ARE MANY MYTH'S SURROUNDING THE AWARDS,MOSTLY PUT OUT THERE BY DEALERS WHO TRY TO SCARE BUYERS INTO BUYING FROM THEM BY SAYING EVERONE ELSE IS SELLING BOGUS AWARDS.
ONE OF THE MOST USED MYTH'S IS THAT BEATLES R.I.A.A. AWARDS ARE "RARE". THIS IS A FASLEHOOD, BEATLES AWARDS ON THE WHOLE ARE QUITE EASY TO FIND, BECAUSE THEY ARE SOLD AND TRADED AROUND THE WORLD BY COLLECTOR'S EVERYDAY. THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY CURRENCY. THERE ARE NOT AS MANY AS PEOPLE MIGHT THINK,BUT NOT HARD TO FIND. ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN BUYING AN AWARD IS THAT OVER TIME
MANY WERE RESTORED, I.E. THE FRAME,MINI,DISC ETC.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH A RESTORED AWARD,
THE PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN DEALERS CLAIM THAT THEIR AWARD(S) ARE ORIGINAL 1964 "MEET THE BEATLES" ...VERY,VERY UNLIKELY. A BEATLE TITLE THAT WAS RELEASED IN 1965 FOR "RUBBER SOUL" AND CERTIFIED GOLD ON 12-24-65 DID INDEED HAVE AWARDS
FROM THAT TIME,BUT, THERE ARE ALSO THE SAME TITLES WITH ESSENTIALLY THE SAME LOOK THAT WERE
MADE UP IN 1966. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HAS ALWAYS BEEN SINGLES.
THE "COIN" SINGLE ONLY HAS THREE TITLES...
"I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND"
"CAN'T BUY ME LOVE"
"A HARD DAY'S NIGHT"
AFTER THE "COIN' COME THE "SMALL PLAY HOLE". THIS IS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER AND GENERALLY LOOKED UPON AS THE LEGITIMATE 45 AWARD. AFTERTHAT IS WHERE WE GET INTO TROUBLE. THE "LARGE PLAY HOLE"
FOR "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND" COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN MADE UP IN 1969-1970. BECAUSE IT'S A BEATLES WHITE MATTE MOST PEOPLE TEND TO SKIP THAT SMALL FACT. THE AWARDS ARE STILL VERY VALUABLE AND DESIREABLE BUT NOT WORTH $12,000-$15,000 AS SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO GET AWAY WITH IN THE PAST.
IORIGINAL 1964 R.I.A.A. "COIN" SINGLE FOR "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT". THIS SINGLE IS ONE OF THE THREE MOST RARE AND VALUABLE OF THE BEATLES R.I.A.A 45 AWARDS.
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