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Subject: Original copy of Kansas City Kitty sells for nice bucks..!


Was an Original copy of Kansas City Kitty really worth this much?? $765.00 ?!??!???


http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Edison-Cylind ... 7675.l2557



I know there's probably only a few hundred copies out there...but Geez! I figured that it would go for $190 bucks or so max.. It figures that the copy came from New Jersey. The seller probably bought it at a garage sale...

That's the most that I've ever seen paid for an Edison Blue Amberol. They obviously could have cared less about the other ones in the auction with it.. A bit way overpriced???!??!???


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Tony K.
Melbourne, Florida

NEFaurora wrote:That's the most that I've ever seen paid for an Edison Blue Amberol.

Tom Hawthorn sold a copy of "You're the Cream in My Coffee" on eBay last November for $1247.72

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190960783283

I paid less than half that for mine. Not sure how desirable "Kansas City Kitty" is in comparison, but the prices on these late BAs seem to be going nowhere but up.

OMG, Kansas City Kitty in a "junk" lot! Just incredible!

$765 is higher than I've seen for that cylinder, but there were only 102 copies pressed according to the stock card illustrated in Dethlefon's second Blue Amberol book. It's also Billy Murray and fairly jazzy, and being that "late", was electrically dubbed from Diamond Disc, so it has a lot going for it. A copy of 5700, IMHO a less desirable record, went for $787 on eBay within the last year.

Incidentally, there was a copy of 5718, the next-to-last number in the BA popular series, on eBay recently. It sold for just over $1000.

i have both the diamond disc and the cylinder i din't know it went that high in the market i bought the cylinder in a bulk sale in the nineties at a collectors fair in the netherlands (where i live)for about 0.50$ a piece it was a big box with about 200 blue amberols, indestructibles and wax 4m edisons the next year same deal same fair same guy

i always buy my cylinders in bulk a bonus is that in a lot of cases if i sell the doubles my puchage is free and i improve the quality of my cylinder collection constantly

I was sure that "The Garden Of Roses" was the title that drove that lot up so high...