Edison NOS Diamond Disc Collection?

[FloridaClay]

There was more than one stash of NOS Diamond Discs, left overs from dealers and jobbers when Edison went out of business. There was a very large one here in Florida that had been donated to a ministry group. About half of it was destroyed in a hurricane. Some of the remaining ones showed up from time to time on eBay, where I bought a few now and then up until about 3 or 4 years ago. They would arrive with 2 or 3 printed New Testaments in the box. I had an opportunity to buy the entire lot, but had neither the money nor the space to store them. I don't know what finally became of them.

Clay

[TinfoilPhono]

Another stash of NOS Diamond Disks is at the Ford Museum -- two records made exclusively for Henry Ford and never catalogued. A stash of these were de-accessioned about 14 years ago and were sold through a prominent record dealer. Many of those went straight to eBay, earning significant profits for a few entrepreneurs.

Last time I was at the Ford about 6 or 7 years ago, attending Old Car Festival, the museum had a de-accession sale in the Benson Ford Research Center, selling enormous quantities of duplicates of auto-related paper ephemera. Off in one corner were two huge boxes full of Ford Diamond Disks, priced at $10 ea. I later talked with a friend who is a curator there, she told me that the quantities de-accessioned up until then barely scratched the surface. She wouldn't say exactly how many were still in storage but the implication was clear -- a LOT.

The sound quality of these NOS records was amazing but the musical content was much less enchanting.

[bigshot]

I was given three wooden crates full of NOS batwing Victors. They are all Germanic folk music from the dusty back room of a music store in Wisconsin. I still haven't gotten around to listening to any of them, but it's neat to see them all shiny and new in clean Victor sleeves. I guess someday I will have a yen to hear some oomp pah pah music and yodeling, and I will have a great time.

[benjaminh]

Hey, if you don't feel that yen coming on anytime soon, feel free to send some of those records my way! Nothing better than yodeling and "oomp pah pah" music, wish I had more. I guess it's the German blood in me that resurfaces occasionally