Crates Are For Digging Member since Aug 2012 25322 Points Moderator
Hi Scott, welcome to 45worlds. Regarding sourcing reasonably priced 78's local auctions, gumtree, local free ads, buying ad in newsagent window and telling all your friends and family you're looking for 78's.
If you try the above methods you should pick up some interesting job lots but if you're only looking for a few specific discs then it's E-Bay or specialist dealers which won't be cheap.
And yes I've picked up records of all of the above (except Bill Murray) using the above methods.
Strangely I dropped off some Classical Odd sets in Wath in a record dealers there. They might have been chucked by now though. Overpriced 78s were in a s/h general dealers in Otley.