Found a very nice brown wax record...now what?
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:56 pm
Whilst running errands I made a quick run-through of the local antique mall/shabby-shack/where old things go to die.
And I found a molded-process Columbia Record of "The Fireman's Duty" on brown wax. It's really a nice copy--there is faint mold on the beginnings and ends but the middle, I'd say a full 80% of the record surface, has that butterscotch-pudding look to it, the way we wish they all looked! A playable and good listening copy.
I haven't played it. I have a Fireside and a K reproducer as my only 2-minute setup and wouldn't dare shred it on that.
Would I be better off:
find a B reproducer & play it, but accept the fact that it's extremely fragile and I risk destroying it with it each playing?
selling it?
using it as an excuse for buying a small graphophone? (Don't want to do this even though B's and Q's are cool)
trading it to an archivist?
I just figured that any old record of this era is going to be tough to find, and thought that someone might like it and give it the preservation it deserves. I feel very honored to have a good brown-wax cylinder now, but think it needs to find a new home among professional collectors.
(With it was Edison Gold Moulded 3172 "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," supposedly church chimes but listed as tubular bells--it came with original box and lid! A real time capsule.)
And I found a molded-process Columbia Record of "The Fireman's Duty" on brown wax. It's really a nice copy--there is faint mold on the beginnings and ends but the middle, I'd say a full 80% of the record surface, has that butterscotch-pudding look to it, the way we wish they all looked! A playable and good listening copy.
I haven't played it. I have a Fireside and a K reproducer as my only 2-minute setup and wouldn't dare shred it on that.
Would I be better off:
find a B reproducer & play it, but accept the fact that it's extremely fragile and I risk destroying it with it each playing?
selling it?
using it as an excuse for buying a small graphophone? (Don't want to do this even though B's and Q's are cool)
trading it to an archivist?
I just figured that any old record of this era is going to be tough to find, and thought that someone might like it and give it the preservation it deserves. I feel very honored to have a good brown-wax cylinder now, but think it needs to find a new home among professional collectors.
(With it was Edison Gold Moulded 3172 "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," supposedly church chimes but listed as tubular bells--it came with original box and lid! A real time capsule.)
