EBAY Surprise

[Wahski]

Recently found a bulk lot of vinyl/shellac for auction on the Ebays.  
I had seen it up for auction in the past a few times but it never had any bids.
Advertised was 420 records, a mixture of vinyl, singles and shellac, it was a lucky dip as could not ascertain what it contained by the photos, except for a few releases by the long-haired musicians - Brahms, Beethoven and Bach.

My main interest in auction was for the 78RPMs, I had never intentionally bought any before. For the last few years people have been giving me their CD,DVD,Bluray,vinyl or shellac, I guess most are streaming now, or no longer have things to play them on. So managed to accumulated circa x300 free 78s.
I bought a Decca 1920/30s trench style wind up to play them on.

Starting bid was $99, no one else bidded -so I won.

The round things were situated about an hours drive north of me at a place called Meadow Heights. Didn't see any meadows there - just houses, and suburb was on flat land - no hills or heights, although they had lots of annoying speed humps through the streets.

I brought with me a milk crate for the shellac and a few other boxes to take the music home, allowing for the circa 400 recordings.

As I transferred the records from his side porch to my car, something was a miss. I was running out of room. They already had a milk crate full of shellac and vinyl were  in plastic tubs/cardboard boxes, so I had to leave some of their supplied containers behind as the boot (which I think you more northern folk refer to as a trunk) was full, as was back seat and passenger side. Could just see partially through rear-vision mirror on the way back home.

I survived the trek back, navigating over all the speed humps and having literally a full load. Once I unpacked and sorted through everything, found I had over 900 albums/singles/EPs/Shellac there. Clearly the guy I bought these from either cannot count or just guess-timated the quantity. They also seem to possess very little knowledge about these 'big black CDs'.

So it ended up being:
130 Shellac (10" & 12"), 83 Singles/EPs/flexi-discs, the rest were 10" & 12" vinyl & box sets.

To me looking at the auction photo it does not look like 900 items, maybe some were to the side not present on the table.
78rpms were on the usual labels eg,
Brunswick, Capitol, Columbia, Decca, HMV, Jazzart, MGM, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone.
So that averages out to roughly 11c a record. Alot of rubbish in there, but might find a few gems as I go through them all.

A surprise was amongst them, there were x3 78 Acetate recordings, never seem them in the flesh before. I only thought they existed in 33/45RPM form - but these were 78rpm recordings.
One was by a guy called Danny Kaye but could not see the song title anywhere on Discogs, so might be a different Danny Kaye?
Are 78rpm acetates common?