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i dont know too much about disks, but besides a brown wax cylinder and some very well preserved gold molded cylinders, i think my copy of the blue amberol no. 5000 from 1924

i found a few early country records, and found one with a median price labeled at $126, but i don't ever plan on selling them, partly because they're in very poor condition.

A pristine hmv Gramófono spanish recording of popular songs sung by La Argentinita, accompanied at the piano by no less than the famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Just only had a fine hairline crack that was fixed, and is unnoticeable... For just two euros...!
Also a recording of Conchita Supervía singing De Falla songs, accompanied by the author at the piano.
Some old hmv recordings of Sarasate, a Spanish star violinist of late XIX century.

MisterGramophone wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:54 am I have a question for y’all, what is the most valuable pre-1940 record that you own?
Edit: by valuable, I mean the most expensive record you own is valued on 45worlds.com. My most valuable record is some test pressing from 1921 that goes for $1,500. I might find a more valuable record in my collection though and will edit accordingly.

I don't know for sure, but i have a jazz acetate performed by the Auckland Jazz Concert from the 1950's under the Astor Recording Studios label. Either that or a WW2-era private recording under the National Broadcasting Service label.

Probably, a British-made (Edisonia?) brown-wax cylinder of about 1900 on which Edwin Frederick
James, a distinguished bassoonist who played a solo in the very first Queen's Hall Promenade Concert
in 1895, performs a transcription of Ludwig Fischer's old German drinking song 'Im tiefen Keller' (in
English 'In cellar cool'). The recording is remarkably clear, especially considering that it would have
been impossible for James to point the bell of his instrument at the recording horn unless he lay flat
on his belly while playing. I even have a box to match it – almost; I must admit that this did not come
with the cylinder and may actually belong to another title made at the same session. How many copies
of this could there ever have been?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-32oJouUw

Oliver Mundy.