Re: Shoe boxes

[tarasam@wolfenet.com]

Karen- I  have one...I received it as part of a promotional package for
the album from Columbia Records.  It is red, with a round sticker that
has a picture of the album cover on it, on the side it has a rectangular
black sticker that is broken into four sections it says:
"Size 4" in one, "Colour Red" in another, "Style Ballet" in the third,
and "KT" in the fourth.  Inside is a promo copy of  "The Red Shoes" in a
little cardboard holder.  That's it, no bio, no pen, no red shoes!!!
Not real impressive overall, but a fun curiousity for the shelf....

Karen Newcombe wrote:

> As I recall, every bootlegger in town ran out and started making these
>
> cheesey "shoebox" packages and just threw in whatever they could think
> of.
>
> There WAS an official EMI promotional shoebox, and as I recall it did
> NOT
> contain shoes.  The ads for them that showed up in Goldmine shortly
> after
> TRS release described them as having a CD, a bio on Kate, a Red Shoes
> pen,
> a photo or two, and possibly other trinkets.  I never saw a
> description or
> picture of the outside of the box.
>
> If anyone out there has one of these promo boxes would you kindly give
> us a
> good description of the box and contents?
>
> For a while these were selling for huge amounts of money; I even saw
> one
> advertised for $300. U.S., which is ridiculous.  Having not looked at
> Goldmine in ages I have no idea whether many of these are still in
> circulation.  If anyone ever comes across one of these I'd be
> interested in
> having a look at the thing.
>
> Karen  kln@staralliance.com