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Inigo wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 2:14 pm What a find!
What a father!

Tell me about it! He's the best...

Here are my Berliners. I used to have about 20 but I figured one for each machine would be all I needed.

Ah! You've got the ZZ version of the Laughing Song and I have the XX (different takes). I'd be interested in hearing the difference.

I posted mine here: https://youtu.be/4ORA5koFruk

As mentioned by George P......the K&R 5" disc's were offered in zinc or celluloid.

Very nice! Do you have a better image of the inscribed title on the zinc disc? Can you decipher it? It should read "Rei. pag 367". It is an unused zinc master of a take of the nursery rhyme "Who killed Cock Robin".

The disc with the first verse in each case of the nursery rhymes "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Humpty Dumpty" on the right is pressed from hard rubber. Does it still have the paper label with the contents of the recording stuck on the back? If that is the case, could you please post an image of it? Thank you.

Dischoard wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 5:23 pm Ah! You've got the ZZ version of the Laughing Song and I have the XX (different takes). I'd be interested in hearing the difference.

I posted mine here: https://youtu.be/4ORA5koFruk

I'll post mine in the next day or 2.

I may as well join in with my small group of Berliners, they are:

Berliner (London) 7905 - Waltz Caprice - Mr J Jacobs (violin solo) - 20/12/1898

Berliner 071 - Climb up ye children climb - George J Gaskin - 14/4/1899

Berliner 0912 - Medley Lancers - the metropolitan orchestra - 27/1/1900

I’ve only got 4 early 7” records so I threw in a photo of my early zonophone too

Zonophone 1639 - When the band played home sweet home - George J Gaskin

Another Berliner disc type. These examples are the first Canadian label. Interestingly you can see "E Berliner's Gramophone Made Under Canadian Patents Nos, 55078 and 55079, Daied (sp) Feb 24 1897." under the labels if you look carefully.

Here is another....

gramophone78 wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:26 pm Here is another....1900 Canadian Berliner.JPG

AAAAAHHHH! I have been looking for any copy of that forever! Didn't realize it was first done on Berliner- very cool!