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Due to the diabolical free shipping offer from Mosaic, I went a little overboard. I won't admit the full scope of my indulgence, but I did acquire, among other things, the Mulligan and Gerald Wilson sets. Mulligan was numbered in the 2800 range (if I read the hand-numbering correctly) and Wilson was already in the 2900 range (too lazy to get the boxes and get the exact number).

This indicates to me that these sets are selling at a brisk pace. I wouldn't be surprised to see either sell out by year's end. Am I right on this? And what other sets are moving fast? Can anyone identify the fastest selling Mosaic? Just curious. Some sets seem to hang around forever, but there seem to be a few that meet their sales mark pretty quickly.

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I won't admit the full scope of my indulgence, but I did acquire, among other things, the Mulligan and Gerald Wilson sets.

Hey, c'mon man. You must admit to what you purchased from Mosaic and submit the results, the complete results, in this thread.

Don't you know nothin'? :P

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I won't admit the full scope of my indulgence, but I did acquire, among other things, the Mulligan and Gerald Wilson sets.

Hey, c'mon man. You must admit to what you purchased from Mosaic and submit the results, the complete, results in this thread.

Don't you know nothin'? :P

You'll never drag it out of me :rsly:

Hey come on, there must be some thoughts on which Mosaic are moving quickly?

If my estimate is correct, Mulligan wil be gone by end of year!

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The Mildred Bailey set I recently received is numbered 2112! That's even higher than the last of the recently OOP Vee Jays. I got quite a shock when I saw that, given there appears to be little interest in this set (pre bop) and there are a hefty 10 discs worth of music. If the box number is any indication of sales, this should be a decent seller for them but probably not among the fastest. B)

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... and there are a hefty 10 discs worth of music ...

This is the only problem of this superb box. It is toooooooo hefty. I could live with half of this output for a much lesser price. But don't ask me which are the TOP 5 discs.... :wub:

BTW, it is one of the few sets my wife likes to listen to. "Michael, put in one of the discs with the fat lady on the cover...."!

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I think the Mulligan numbers must include the sets that have been distrubuted at retail in Europe.

I think the Wilson set has been around 3 or more years. Numbers in the 2900 range are indeed very good.

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I think the Wilson set has been around 3 or more years.  Numbers in the 2900 range are indeed very good.

Yes, and if you haven't indulged yet, buy this set ... it's one of Mosaic's best and my fave by far.

Cheers!

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I received my Mulligan Mosaic today. My set is numbered 3173 of 7500. This set was released in 2003 and is already almost halfway gone.

This obviously does not take into account the numbers of Mulligan Mosaic boxes that are being sold outside the USA. The Mulligan Mosaics sold in stores in Europe do not have individual numbers.

These ones come with a note stating 'This one of a limited edition of 7,500 albums' on page 2 of the inside booklet.

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This obviously does not take into account the numbers of Mulligan Mosaic boxes that are being sold outside the USA. The Mulligan Mosaics sold in stores in Europe do not have individual numbers. These ones come with a note stating 'This one of a limited edition of 7,500 albums' on page 2 of the inside booklet.

I don't mean this as an argument, rather, as an attempt to understand. Why would the number on my set, or any Mulligan set, not take into account the numbers of the sets being sold outside of the USA? From my experience Mosaic does sell the sets approximately in numeric order from the lowest number to the highest number. If there are only 7500 copies, then there are only 7500 copies, numbered or not.

I picture a scenario where Mosaic decides to send, say, 2000 copies to locations outside of the USA and begins the USA sales with a number such as 2001, or something of the sort. I have a sense, too, that pre-order customers purchased the first few sets, such as the single numbered boxes, directly from Mosaic rather than from a reseller. I wonder which set numbers were used to cover the sales outside of the USA?

Or, do you mean the number of total Mulligan sets sold could be greater than the number on my set would indicate?

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I thought at some point in the past - maybe as far back as the old BNBB - someone had determined with some level of certainty that the number on a given Mosaic set really wasn't indicative of how many had been sold or how many were left.

Up over and out.

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I thought at some point in the past - maybe as far back as the old BNBB -  someone had determined with some level of certainty that the number on a given Mosaic set really wasn't indicative of how many had been sold or how many were left. Up over and out.

I do remember that BNBB discussion.

My personal experience, however, dictates otherwise. The numbers on my Mosaic sets have always been quite indicative of a given point in the sales life-cycle of a Mosaic set. If I order a set early in its life-cycle, I get a low number. If I order in the middle I receive a middle number. And so on. If I watch the people on this Board post their Mosaic set numbers, if they purchased after me, they always have a number slightly higher than mine. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule such as if a Mosaic set is returned.

Do I know if Mosaic's use of numbers in order from low to high is a fact? No. My judgement is based on experience only.

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I think with Dave on this one. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason how they allot numbers. However, Wesbed's post does make sense because why would you start in the middle, or even if you started out with 1, 2, 3, etc., why would you assign a higher number if in fact you're not at that number?

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we used to number prints by the batch. print a hundred or so, number half of those as time permitted. sell them off the top, i.e. the higher numbers first. meanwhile keep numbering, placing those back on top. put a pile away into storage. continue numbering and selling. receiving a new batch from the printer. all in all, it turns into a mess. there may be a pattern on the larger scale, but no printing/numbering/storage facility will keep them all in a row and sell them like that. it makes no sense really and it isn't important either.

Posted

the copies for the Mulligan set are long oop in the EU. Universal didn't take that much of them in the first place and they run out fairly soon and tried to get more from the States but with no luck. So the 7500 is including the Universal sold set's.

Posted

I have the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band and the Tal Farlow Mosaic boxes that are being distributed in Europe. The only difference with other recent Mosaic boxes I have is that the outer box bears a different serial number - B0000958-2 instead of MD4-221 for the Mulligan set. That number is also on the Mosaic discs inside the box. Those discs indicate they are 'Made in the U.S.A. copyright Mosaic Records L.T.C.'.

The last page of the booklet has the regular Mosaic logo and the Mosaic, Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. adress.

Same goes for the Tal Farlow set.

I did not get the Roy Eldridge Mosaic box which is also distributed in Europe and it looks like the two boxes I have.

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