Signed Record of Richard Tauber's Die Tote Stadt

[zippy]

Hi all,
I have a signed record of Richard Tauber's Die Tote Stadt. I am curious about the worth of this record.

[neilmack]

It's signed in the wax, so it's probably no different from any other copy. The disc itself iisn't common because it's a late acoustic - they tended to have short lives in the catalogue.

It's unlikely that you can retire on the proceeds -

https://www.popsike.com/Odeon-Lxx-80944 ... 04848.html

[epigramophone]

It was common practice for artists, especially those who recorded for the Lindstrom group, to autograph the wax.
They believed it to be a precaution against piracy.
Records individually autographed on the label are a different matter and can be worth more than an unsigned copy.

[Inigo]

Yes, many fonitipias are also signed on the wax. And the Columbia 863 by John McCormack is signed too, as it was an Odeon matrix.