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Post by collector60490 on Jan 6, 2024 4:20:25 GMT -5
Your Standard left the factory in February of 1907. The December 2023 edition of The Antique Phonograph includes a long article on Standards that is complete with a serial number dating chart for the models.
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Post by collector60490 on Jan 6, 2024 4:15:54 GMT -5
Your machine left the factory in April, 1906. The December 2023 issue of The Antique Phonograph has a long article on the Standard that includes a serial number dating chart.
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Post by collector60490 on Dec 8, 2020 20:34:52 GMT -5
I've seen two different sizes on the Internet...one claims the pin is .035 the other says it is .023 I'd like to buy a thin stainless steel rod to use to make these pins up for rebuilding a batch of reproducers but am not sure which of these sizes is correct. I've also seen where some people have used sewing needles as pins, and just cut them to size. Any ideas or suggestions would be most helpful!
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Post by collector60490 on Apr 26, 2017 15:34:54 GMT -5
I'll try to get photos this weekend and post here. I don't have any right now... I was wondering because of the lack of the Edison trade mark... they DO all have the 4M note before the titles...
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Post by collector60490 on Apr 26, 2017 15:33:18 GMT -5
Many thanks! It looks like those with the metal ring are indestructible cylinders... I must say I've fallen in love with these Edison cylinder players, so much so that I sold my Victrola to a friend and now have four versions of the Edison players! They are a pure joy to listen to!
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Post by collector60490 on Apr 25, 2017 16:27:28 GMT -5
I accidentally posted this in the wrong area... call me a Newbie... but here is the question: I recently purchased a lot of 160 Amberols for my Edison players (It was a steal because they were inside a cabinet I was buying made to hold that many! The guy threw in the cylinders for free!) and the lot included 31 black wax (?) cylinders. These are VERY fragile, unlike the blue Amberols that can take a beating, relatively speaking. Not all of them have the Edison trade mark, and those that don't, look the same, but they have no numbers on them, just titles... and at the top, inside there is a metal ring. My question is..what are these? And who made them? Any ideas? These are all 4 minute cylinders and are marks 4M on the labels, but they do not have a manufacturers name.... Many thanks in advance!
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Post by collector60490 on Apr 25, 2017 16:21:47 GMT -5
I have quite a few cylinders we would consider racist today and plan to put them on Ebay one at a time... Please remember this fact: these were made when the Civil War was less than 50 years in the past and many potential buyers were around when the war was fought. Also remember there were thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of freed slaves still alive at that time and thousands of former slave owners who considered African-Americans to be "darkies"... and many of the former slaves accepted that definition because that was actually an improvement over their former status as property. Times rapidly changed as those generations died off...and today what horrifies us, was considered "normal" for those generations. That's part of why I find these old racist recordings to be so interesting, they offer an insight into society at the time they were recorded! Yours is especially interesting because of the extreme age..the civil war and slavery had ended just 32 years earlier. Include that in the facts of your listing and you will generate a lot of interest.
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Post by collector60490 on Apr 25, 2017 16:14:30 GMT -5
I recently purchased a lot of 160 Amberols for my Edison players (It was a steal because they were inside a cabinet made to hold that many! The guy threw in the cylinders for free!) and the lot included 31 black wax (?) cylinders. These are VERY fragile, unlike the blue Amberols that can take a beating, relatively speaking. Not all of them have the Edison trade mark, and those that don't, look the same, but they have no numbers on them, just titles... and at the top, inside there is a metal ring. My question is..what are these? And who made them? Any ideas? These are all 4 minute cylinders and are marks 4M on the labels, but they do not have a manufacturers name.... Many thanks in advance!
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