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Imagine the " embarrassment of riches" available at your Edison dealer in 1908! Were I to get this certificate I'd go for the two minute Grand Opera cylinders.
What would be on YOUR Xmas list? Jim
Edison Invents the Christmas Gift Certificate, 1908.
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Edison Invents the Christmas Gift Certificate, 1908.
Every time I read this article in the Edison Phonograph Monthly it amuses me for the fact that that nothing is new under the sun. Actually, I think the gift certificate idea predates 1908, but this article nicely sums it up..complete with festive printed forms.
Imagine the " embarrassment of riches" available at your Edison dealer in 1908! Were I to get this certificate I'd go for the two minute Grand Opera cylinders. What would be on YOUR Xmas list?
Jim
Imagine the " embarrassment of riches" available at your Edison dealer in 1908! Were I to get this certificate I'd go for the two minute Grand Opera cylinders.
What would be on YOUR Xmas list? Jim
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Re: Edison Invents the Christmas Gift Certificate, 1908.
Wow wouldn't it be fun to get hold of one of those and have a few reproduced... 
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Re: Edison Invents the Christmas Gift Certificate, 1908.
Exactly! They'd make the perfect collector's Christmas Card.
Jim
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