Today I received a 78 I have been trying to find for a while… unfortunately it was broken!! It’s quite a rare one by Don Porto on Eclipse, with Bob and Alf Pearson on vocals: https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/779uk
Very annoying as I always contact the seller first to check if they are experienced with sending 78s. If they are not, I advise them how to package them. I did that, and the seller ignored my advice, sending it in an LP mailer with some bubble wrap. Not happy. This usually seems to happen with rare records too… Don Porto 78s come up on eBay all the time, but not this one. I bought it on Discogs ages ago and the seller cancelled my order as they couldn’t find it. Usually, I’m the only bidder, but this time, someone else was bidding against me. Maybe a Cavan o’Connor collector, as he’s on the other side.

I used to get a few broken 78s in my early days of buying online. Nowadays it’s rarer but a lot of people clearly don’t realise they’re fragile.