Phonograph on fire!

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Phonograph on fire!

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While sorting through the cylinders purchased at the CLPGS Phonofair yesterday, out of one of the boxes fell the paper insert for BA1727. Needless to say, this was not one of the cylinders I had bought, but it tells a story which even Edison's publicity department could not have made up :
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And the Phonograph was saved!
Our hero! ;)

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Here is that phonograph... and, it still works!!!
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