A very scarce set of jazz 78's. Not a complete set of every one in the series but a good start and with most of the earlier shows. These are also the oldest public service spot records I can remember ever finding. Whomever took them home and kept them did play them a good bit and they look Fair or at best Good condition. And on the very positive side these are VINYL not shellac 78's and have some extent of flexibility to them, so you don't have to worry about them breaking the way most 78's can. I have test played a few sides and most play through without skips but some do skip and all of them have a lot of noise. They aren't terribly groove worn and the sound itself is not garbled, but there is a lot of noise over top of it. 

These are five minute shows, public service bits for US Savings Bonds. (Interestingly, it was records like these which gave Gary U.S. Bonds his stage name. His producer figured the stations would think his records were radio spots and play them.) As with later such spots you get an introduction, a popular song or two, and whatever they can squeeze in that they expect you might pay attention to that might make you buy Savings Bonds. The announcer's name was hard to catch but it might be Glen Elliott.

The performers are pretty cool. One of the earlier records has a date of 9/20/50 and the radio station name penciled on it but the second character is so stylized I cannot make it out. It is W something E D. They probably go one per week and there would have been a year, or 26 records, in the series.

Performers are:
Alec Templeton And The Alectricians - 3, 7, 16, 21, 25, 30, 47
The Joe Bushkin Trio - 4, 9, 15, 20, 26, 48
Stan Freeman And The Trio - 8, 18, 29, 46
Johnny Guarnieri Quintet - 10, 19, 27, 28, 37, 45, 50
Lenny Herman Quintet - 17, 22, 38, 49

And the list of programs on the records is 3/4, 7/8, 9/10, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 25/26, 27/28, 29/30, 37/38, 45/46, 47/48, 49/50.

All told fourteen 78 rpm records, vinyl, in plain or odd sleeves. About half are in heavy paper stock green sleeves and that is surely what they originally came in. As noted they are low grade but not worse than most 78's I see and someone was keeping and playing them. I do not promise that all of the sides are useful but most of them should be, but please note this is a bit of a salvage operation and that cannot be helped. But someone or other including me has bothered to keep them from the landfills for 66 years now and I have to think there was some merit in this. And as I have too many records these can now be yours for a song, really.

Grading of LP record albums:

Mint: Not part of our vocabulary in general, but would refer to a sealed unopened record.
Near Mint: Looks brand new.
Near Mint minus: Very close to new, appears to have been played possibly a few times. Perhaps a few tiny blemishes.
Very Fine or Excellent: Still close to new and only slightly used, a few faint marks or sleeve scratches. Only if the music level is soft is it possible to hear a hint of surface static.
Very Good plus: Light scratches possible but nothing even close to bad. Surface noise is generally not heard during the music.
Very Good: May have a number of light scratches but still nothing bad. Surface noise can generally be heard during the music but does not interfere with it. note: Few record albums made in the 50's or 60's actually play any better than VG or VG+ regardless of their appearance.
Very Good minus: The surface noise rivals the music.
Good plus: No awful scratches but will have a lot of them. Surface noise has overtaken the music.
Good: Still plays, can't say much more for it.

Jackets & Sleeves are graded by standard paper criteria such as would be used for comic books or trading cards.