LOT: 17 10" 78 RPMs FROM STINSON - RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN, VG+

$

125

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE!!
These were obtained from an estate of a former Russian Bookstore owner and were part of a larger collection - others in the collection have been sold and these 14 remain.  They were found in the 78 RPM albums which of course are included in the sale.  ALL OF THE 78's ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION!!  I would grade them in the VG+ to VG++ category.  They look very clean and playable for 78 RPMs.  All labels are pristine.  
Here is a little bit of history on the Stinson label, which was founded to sell these records (http://www.russian-records.com/categories.php?cat_id=269):  "The story of Stinson Trading Company begins with Soviet Union participation in the 1939 World’s Fair that took place in New York. The Company was founded by two men: Mr. Irving Prosky who was the first exclusive American distributor of records made in the Soviet Union, and Mr. Herbert Harris who was the owner of the Union Record Shop located at 14 Union Square and operated Sales Concessions of Soviet pavilion in Stanley and Miami Theaters. It looks like due to the high popularity of some Soviet records they were quickly sold out. The Stinson Trading Company was quickly set up for reprinting those records on the American soil. Though the label design of American records resembles the Russian one, it is slightly different. The labels have smaller size, the “New York Fair 1939” and “USSR” writings are missing, and instead of bottom note “Made in USSR” there is “Recorded in Soviet Union” one. When the World Fair was over, the company continued to make pressings of the Soviet records together with another American company Keynote Recordings owned by Eric Bernay/Bernstein."
Here is a listing of the records.  I provide the record number and the songs on each side - not the artist or other information.  Please ask if you have questions: 
3198:  Ugolok & Khotchu Veselya 3018:  Glistening in the Fog is My Fire & Fare Thee Well, Tovarisch 3137: De Ty Brodish, Moya Dole & Koly Rozluchayatsia Dwoye UK 149: Oy Na Horu Kozak Wodu Nosytj & Oy, Kazala Meni Maty UK 115:  Tchie To Polechko & Hora, Hora, Bukovina 3038: Liubimy Gorod & Pesenka 3113:  Tchoobtchik & Proshtchai Moi Tabor 3350: Elegia & Persidskaya Pesnya 3035:  Scotch Toast Song & New News 3059: Polie Moe Polie & V Put Doroschku Kalnuyu 3254: Lebedinaia Piesnia & Glaza 3054: Zastoylnaya & Perikola 3128:  Front Line Drive & It So Happened in Life 3229:  Brani Menia Rodnaya & Prialotchka 3102:  I Do Not Want to Sleep & Oy! Dzhigune, Dzhigune 3195:  In the Bright Moonlight & Oh Joyous Moment R 3306:Bystrej Letite, Koni & Tchajka