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For trade of Victor, Edison or Columbia Phonograph machines or good advertising item or cash. I will bring this to the Wayne Show if there is any interest.

One of the rarest of all Diamond Disc Records

Special Limited Edition Transcontinental Phone Edison Diamond Disc Celebration of Edison Day Panama Pacific Int. Exposition Edison Laboratory 9pm Oct. 21 1915
Diamond Disc Address to Thomas Alva Edison by Miller Reese Hutchison One Record Presented to Each Guest and Official Present in the Library of Mr. Edison's Lab and One To Each Official of American Telephone & tel. Co Compliments of Mr. Edison's Assistants

4199-a (2)

This disc has some condition issues with some edge chips and lamination issues. The speech side plays well with little background noise. The 2nd side has a lamination crack into the grooves


thank you Stephen

Stephen
Something like this must be priceless? I wouldn't even know what to offer you but I would like to have that record in my collection.

Kevan

Having listened to a transfer of this disc, I still wonder whether it might somehow have been electrically recorded from the original telephone transmission...

Bill

I don't believe this was a recording from the transmission (there were a couple of takes done, as I recall). I also have a copy of this and posted my transfer of it here sometime back, mine was found in a $1 box of DDs at an auction. I didn't even know it was there until I was going through them the next day, talk about lucky. It was of the prizes of my collection.

Good luck with the sale!

Sean

EDIT - here's my original thread including a link to hear my copy of this disc if anyone is interested.

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ll&start=0