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Hello everybody!

I'm back again after a long time of absence. I apologize for not being online on this site for Some time. I have a question. I recently bought a , what i believe, British one sided Zonophone. I wonder, how old is this one ? I would think 1906, because the song "Flying Arrow" came out in 1906?

The number on the label is X-40170.

Thanks in advance,

Timo

The late Eddie Shaw's D.A.T.E.S. Part 3 shows English Zonophone X-40086 to X-40145 as being issued in 1906, and X-40146 to X-40201 in 1907.

Alan Kelly's data at the CHARM database shows this matrix (9671b) as by the Coldstream Guards Band, recorded Monday, 7 January 1907.

-HA

Okay, Thanks very much for your help!

- Timo