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Edison Chinese Catalog

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Good morning from Beijing.

Here is a PDF of Edison's Chinese Catalog. I do not have a copy of Edison's Chinese Amberol catalog. I'm hoping to find it as well.

https://dl.lib.ntu.edu.tw/files/origina ... 495aef.pdf

Bootlegs of these records also exist, I have found pictures of them online.-
I found another catalog here, https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history-chinese.php, but it is missing the final page.

This catalog has the missing 3rd page most scans omit.
Does anyone on this forum have Chinese Cylinders?
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Re: Edison Chinese Catalog

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Very gracious of you to post all Chinese pages -- Thank you!

We have a few of these at i78s, plus a mystery 4m Amberol:

Edison GM 12767 https://i78s.org/preview/35084afdc30115 ... 815d341c6b
Edison GM 12781 https://i78s.org/preview/654881ea052b26 ... 51726e863d
Edison GM 12782 https://i78s.org/preview/01f12f55f4f7b2 ... 15cd0f6ba9
Edison GM 12786 https://i78s.org/preview/d028d68f9c5277 ... f7ebbc4334
Edison Amberol 8277 https://i78s.org/preview/51eaa9b76187ef ... 7829af734a

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Charles. Here's a picture of a 4m Chinese Amberol. I have only found this one photo ever. The mystery 4m Amberol might be 8278.

Chuck, do you think this is the same as the linked? It's only a 1 number difference.
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The mystery 4m Amberol is one number off -- 8277.
We know the catalog number, we just don't know the title or performer.

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Charles.

Do you have a photo of 8277?

Thank you.
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