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Hello,
I am looking for a reproduction Hardy Tin Foil.
Pete

Try contacting Jalal Aro in Paris: [email protected]. He had a few left when I was there last fall.

I know of 3 production runs of Hardy replicas. One was in the 1990s, by Guido Severijns in Holland. Ray Phillips made some about 12 years ago in southern CA. A series was started in France in 1977 for the centennial of the phonograph but they were not completed and put on the market until 2010, mostly sold by Jalal.

All 3 are excellent but the French replicas are by far the most accurate. None are cheap but then again top quality tinfoil replicas take a lot of skilled work to make so the costs are justified.