A collection documented for you

Your collection, documented record by record — and kept entirely yours.

Every record is photographed, transcribed and identified to a fixed standard, then turned into whatever you need it to be:

A collection, hosted privately on the web

Your own record-by-record archive, browsable like a streaming library and private to you.

Design your own coffee-table catalogue book

Build it yourself from the sheet menu — pick the records and the order (by artist, genre, label or year), choose 1-up, 2-up or 4-up plates, and it lays out a print-ready book of your collection.

The reports

A one-page collection schedule and a record-by-record researched price estimate — the documents a broker, valuer or buyer works from. These are sample pages from a real report; the values are blurred.

Collection schedule — one page listing every record with label, year, condition and insured value (values blurred)
Collection schedule · every record on one page
Researched price estimate — first page: insured value, price guide, condition and pressing chronology for one record (values blurred)
Price estimate · value, guide & pressing chronology
Researched price estimate — label notes, provenance, fidelity and album story for one record
Label notes, provenance & fidelity — per record
Researched price estimate — a second record's entry with condition, variants and label notes (values blurred)
Every copy placed among its variants
Researched price estimate — a promo pressing identified from its label overprint and matrix suffixes
Promos & first pressings identified from the evidence
Researched price estimate — final entry and the owner's declaration block for signing
Closes with the owner's declaration

Exportable from your sheet whenever you need them — for insurance, a sale, or your own records.

Selling? Listings, straight from the archive

When it's time to sell, the documentation becomes the listing. Tell me which records, and I prepare a ready-to-upload eBay draft file — every description already carrying the matrix transcription and the pressing story, with the documented photos in gallery order.

  1. Kind Of Blue · 1959 6-eye✓
    Round About Midnight · CL 949✓
    Porgy And Bess · CL 1274

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    Choose the records

    One, a batch, or the whole collection — you decide what's for sale and the price you want for each.

  2. CSV
    ebay-drafts.csv
    12 records · one file

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    The drafts are prepared

    I build one eBay bulk-draft file from your records' documentation — titles to a fixed formula, full descriptions, your photos in gallery order. Nothing for you to write.

  3. Draft
    Draft
    Draft

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    Into your own Seller Hub

    One upload creates every draft in your own eBay account — auction and/or Buy It Now, at your prices. Review and publish when ready; the sales are yours.

  4. MILES DAVIS Kind Of Blue LP 1959 Columbia 6-eye Matrix A: XLP 47324-1D Cover VG+ · Vinyl NM- $000.00

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    Listings backed by the research

    Serious buyers pay for confidence. Each description carries the dead-wax transcription, the variant chronology placing your copy among every pressing of its title, label notes, the album's story and its fidelity reputation. When buyers can see exactly what's on offer, they bid with confidence — the best result for both sides of the sale.

And Discogs — listed against the exact pressing

Discogs listings are prepared the same way — each record against the exact release the research identified, so your copy sells as what it actually is, with the evidence in the listing.

  1. 1959 — US 6-eye mono — this copy
    1959 — US 6-eye stereo
    1962 — 2-eye 'Guaranteed Hi-Fi'
    1997 — 200g audiophile reissue

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    Matched, not guessed

    Your copy is listed against the exact Discogs release the research identified — not a lookalike pressing from the same year.

  2. Kind Of Blue · 1959 6-eyeFor Sale
    Round About Midnight · CL 949For Sale
    Porgy And Bess · CL 1274

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    One upload, listed

    You get one file for your own Discogs account — exact release, your price, grades and comments all in place. Approve it, upload it, and every record is live. Nothing retyped.

  3. Vinyl: NM-. Cover: VG+.
    Matrix/runout — A: XLP 47324-1D,
    B: XLP 47325-1E.

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    The evidence rides along

    The listing comments carry your grades and the hand-transcribed matrix / runout — the details serious buyers filter for.

  4. Copy and paste this link for full album details including actual item photos: yourname.vinylcurator.net/albums/kind-of-blue/

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    Linked to your own archive

    With your collection hosted here, each listing links back to the record's page on your own site — full documentation, every photograph, and the rest of what you have available one click away.

Private, and yours

Your collection is never published publicly — it's hosted as your private collection behind your login. If you choose to sell, you can open just the records you're offering, a page for buyers to browse, while the rest of the collection stays private. The photographs and files live in your own Google Drive, shared read-only for as long as you choose, and nothing about what you own is put on this site. The documentation is made for you — to insure, to sell, or simply to keep.

Start your collection

Tell me roughly how many records you have and what you need it for — insurance, sale, or your own peace of mind.

Email the archive