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Here's a lot of 28 very nice and clean brown wax cylinders. Some have been labeled by a previous owner with a slip in the box. These are visually extremely clean with any visible issues shown clearly in the pictures. I have never listened to these cylinders and no longer have a correct 2 minute machine for them.

I'm assuming some of the boxes may be originals, but I would not bet real money on it because I don't know.

One of the cylinders that's not labeled is "The Arkansaw Traveler", a descriptive comedy.

Asking $600 OBO plus ship on the lot. These will be securely wrapped and double boxed with plenty of padding in between the two boxes.

Have you considered pricing them out individually?

Hey George,

Just in case you might, if you could check, please: there wouldn't be one titled "I Want My Lulu" - #5410 in your bunch would there? There might (should?) be a matrix number in the deadwax.

Thanks,
Fran

victorthesixth wrote:Have you considered pricing them out individually?

The issue with doing this is that I just sold my last 2m machine and if I sell 'em individually there will be stragglers, which I neither want nor need.

Last time I offered a lot of cylinders people wanted to buy individually and I went along with it. I wound up with over half of them left, and a leftover group that had nothing anyone wanted because it had been cherry picked. I am still wondering what to do with these.

I'd rather sell as a lot and be done. I'll seriously consider reasonable offers.

fran604g wrote:Hey George,

Just in case you might, if you could check, please: there wouldn't be one titled "I Want My Lulu" - #5410 in your bunch would there? There might (should?) be a matrix number in the deadwax.

Thanks,
Fran

Fran: None of these seem to have numbers in the dead wax except for "Arkansaw Travelers"... I just pulled them all out to look. Sorry.

Thank you George, I appreciate your looking.

Best,
Fran

fran604g wrote:Thank you George, I appreciate your looking.

Best,
Fran

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Good luck in the search!

gramophone-georg wrote:Here's a lot of 12 very nice and clean brown wax cylinders. Some have been labeled by a previous owner with a slip in the box. These are visually extremely clean with any visible issues shown clearly in the pictures. I have never listened to these cylinders and no longer have a correct 2 minute machine for them.

I'm assuming some of the boxes may be originals, but I would not bet real money on it because I don't know.

One of the cylinders that's not labeled is "The Arkansaw Traveler", a descriptive comedy.

Asking $850 plus ship on the lot. These will be securely wrapped and double boxed with plenty of padding in between the two boxes.

So, is it 28 cylinders for sale or 12 as stated in the body of your listing? Thanks!

marco wrote:

gramophone-georg wrote:Here's a lot of 12 very nice and clean brown wax cylinders. Some have been labeled by a previous owner with a slip in the box. These are visually extremely clean with any visible issues shown clearly in the pictures. I have never listened to these cylinders and no longer have a correct 2 minute machine for them.

I'm assuming some of the boxes may be originals, but I would not bet real money on it because I don't know.

One of the cylinders that's not labeled is "The Arkansaw Traveler", a descriptive comedy.

Asking $850 plus ship on the lot. These will be securely wrapped and double boxed with plenty of padding in between the two boxes.

So, is it 28 cylinders for sale or 12 as stated in the body of your listing? Thanks!

Good catch. What was I thinking? It's 28, as shown in the group photo at the end. I'll edit the original post, thanks.

Price drop- I'd really like to see these find a good home!