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What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
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What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
I have never heard of this before.
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
The "Red Hand" is a small secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland and Edison apparently made special cylinders for them... 
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"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
In color ads the hand holding up the record was in red. This was probably for customers not fluent in english.
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
It was just a way for someone to ask for Edison records even if they couldn’t remember which brand. It makes more sense when the ad is in color.
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
You beat me to it by mere moments!estott wrote:In color ads the hand holding up the record was in red. This was probably for customers not fluent in english.
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
Thank you for the great responses!
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Re: What does "red hand" record mean in this ad?
but you had the illustration.HisMastersVoice wrote:You beat me to it by mere moments!estott wrote:In color ads the hand holding up the record was in red. This was probably for customers not fluent in english.
If I recall, there was a rec cardboard hand dealers could set up to hold a real record. BTW- it also illustrated how to handle the cylinders without touching the grooves.
I recall that when Gillette blades always had a picture of Gillette on the wrapper customers would ask for the "Man's Face" brand.