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Here is the last one for today.Its the front cover of the cataloge.The cataloge is very small it could most likly even fit in your pocket.And Dave i dont think you could do anything with this scan but i just thought i would show it.

Aaron

Here is a portion of a large advertisement for a Victrola XVIII. If anyone would like to use it as an avatar or other uses....feel free to use it.

Here are some Victor record catalogs. I enjoy looking at them as they have pictures of the artists & bands inside. Here are a few:

Feb. 1922



April 1917


The next photo comes from inside the April 1917 catalog



May 1921 - In this picture you'll see an example of a dealer stamp on the back page.



In the final 3 pictures, let's see if you recognize the 6 artists featured on the front covers:

While looking around for things today, I found these 3 ads. I completely forgot I had them.

Here's a Columbia record ad from 1910


These 2 Victor ads were in the Cosmopolitan magazine Dec. 1913

Here's a favourite ad that I've uploaded elsewhere before. It's for Stollwerck - a German children's gramophone - playing records made of chocolate! Apparently however the chocolate was covered with a thin metal which carried the groves.

I don't have the original magazine from where I scanned this at hand right now, but I think it's from about 1904 or 1905.
Fredrik

And here's a translation of the first part of the ad:

A scientific toy for the Christmas table

STOLLWERCK
player phonograph

To this:
Stollwerck’s
speaking chocolate

Quality: extra soft [!]

Sings – plays – talks

With the phonograph Modell A (price 1 mark) evenly winding is the only thing needed to make the chocolate talk or sing. With his own hand, that is without a clockwork, the kid may thus enjoy the creative pleasure of making a dead object talk, or so to speak infusing life into it.

Later in the ad appears a list of some of the available titles (there is said to have been more than 150 all in all!), divided into three musical categories: christmas songs, folk songs and military music. Titles include well known numbers such as O Tannenbaum, Stille Nacht (Silent Night) and Heideröslein as well as the monarchistic salute Hoch auf den Kaiser (Long live the emperor). But ought it not to have been almost a form of laise-majesté to eat the latter title?

Fredrik

Great ad Frederik!

I've never seen another ad for Stollwerck - would love to find one myself.

I believe that ad is from 1903 as the metal-bodied case was only sold in 1903 being replaced by the wooden-bodied case in 1904.

Here is an example of the machine in the ad:





and here is the 1904 model:



Would it be possible for me to use this image on my phono-website?

Thanks,
Scott

Would it be possible for me to use this image on my phono-website?

You're welcome to, but I'd appreciate if you credit me as the source somehow.

The ad comes from the German weekly magazine Die Woche no. 48, 1904.

Fredrik

PS Is that a chocolate record to the right in the first picture???

Fredrik

Frederik -

I would be happy to credit you as the source should I post it online. Please PM with details you want be to post - I doubt "Frederik" would be enough!

The record shown with the 1903 (metal) Stollwerck is a 1904/5 era records made of a wood-based core covered in a thin layer of wax. The play, but barely. These were made for a very short time for those who wanted a more permanent, non-edible record. I doubt that any original chocolate records have survived. I do know that there has been talk of reproducing a limited run of the chocolate records. I'm not hold my breath though.

Your ad may have been from early 1904 prior to the wooden-bodied Stollwercks introduction.

That's a great ad. If you happen to run across another I would be VERY interested. I do have a Stollwerck wooden crate presumably used to ship chocolate. It makes a nice display. I like the original Stollwerck tip tray too - those seem to come up on eBay occasionally.

Sorry for hijacking the threads topic. I just couldn't resist after seeing such a great ad.

Regards,
Scott