New to forum - Need help with Blue Ambersol Values

[Rich 5]

Hi folks,
I have enjoyed reading many posts on this site over the years, I'm completely new to this board so I hope I'm following the proper protocol. I've owned and enjoyed a Amberola 30 for 20 years but we are getting ready to sell the player and 96 cylinders. I realize that most of the cylinder are only worth $2-$5 but I believe I have a few that may have additional value. Flat tops with non plaster cores, 20 cylinder with 5000+ numbers and original lids and 1 British cylinder. Anyhow, I've created a complete list but would absolutely value someone looking through it and providing some guidance on the cylinders that may have value. I have attached the excel file. I'm not sure if all the sleeves are proper to the cylinders. Also, the previous owner put masking tape on many sleeves and wrote name of the song. That is why there is an MT under the sleeve column. However, there are quite a few that I have sleeve and lid to with no marking. Thanks again in advance. I will also try to paste the list in this post. One other item, there seems to be a few racial inappropriate/sensitive songs/titles. I do not hold any racist views and have no desire to offend anyone. I am only listing these songs as historical items. Here is my attempt tp paste the list but also an excel file is attached. Thanks so much in advance.


Number Title Artist Core Sleeve Lid
1506 Over The Waves Waltz NY Military Band Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1532 Dixie Medley Fred Van Eps Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1543 Red Wing Rotter and Cho Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1544 Darkies' Dream and Darkies' Awakening Fred Van Eps Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1563 Aunt Dinah's Golden Wedding Empire Vauldville Company Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1583 Uncle Josh Buys An Automobile Cal Stewart Plaster of Paris Yes No
1633 Rock Of Ages Edison Mixed Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1644 Unlucky Mose Billy Golden & Joe Hughes Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1647 Nearer My God To Thee Ferd inad Himmelreich Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1648 Dixie NY Military Band Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1763 Down At Finnegan's Jamborie Charles D’Almaine and Co. Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1776 God Be With You, Etc Edison Mixed Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1794 Beautiful Reckoning Hands Edison Mixed Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes No
1860 Darling Nellie Gray Metropolitan Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes/MT Yes
1873 When You And I Were Young Maggie Will Oakland Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1878 Jolly Fellows Waltz Sousa's Band Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
1879 Put On Your Slippers, You're In For The Night Ada Jones Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1888 Marching Through Georgia Fredrick Wheeler Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
1978 I Wanna Be Down Home In Dixie Collins & Harlan Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
2021 Snow Deer Jones & Murray Plaster of Paris Yes/MT Yes
2074 Hotel Porter & The Traveling Salesman Colden & Hughes Plaster of Paris Yes No
2355 Favorite Airs From Edison Olivette Edison Light Opera Company Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
2457 In The Evening By The Moonlight Dear Louise Harvey Hindermeyer And Chorus Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
2764 Auntie Skinner 's Chicken Dinner Medley Sisty And Seitz Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3020 The Arkansas Traveler Len Spencer Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3055 The Whistler And His Dog NY Military Band Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3108 Return Of The Arkansas Traveler Ada Jones & Len Spencer Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3123 Put On Your Slippers And Fill Up Your Pipe Ada Jones Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3124 With His Hands In His Pockets, Etc Byron G. Harlan Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3149 Aloha Oe Ford Hawaiians Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
3160 Shall We Gather At The River Metropolitan Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
3163 Casey Jones Arthur Collins & Chorus Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes Yes
3184 In The Garden Apollo Quartet Of Boston Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
3193 The Preacher & The Bear Arthur Collins Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3206 Song In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree Van Brunt Plaster of Paris Yes No
3255 A Darkey's Oration On Women Billy Golden & James Marlowe Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3317 Bill's Visit To St. Peter Colden & Hines Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3342 It's A Long Long Way To Tipperary Stanley Kirkby Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes No
3356 On The 5:15 Collins Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3429 Victory-Easter Carol Carol Singer Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
3456 Cow May Come, Cows May Go, etc Harry Von Tilzer & Irving Kaufman Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3466 Throw Out The Lifeline Henry Burr Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3509 So Long, Oolong Al Bernard Cardboard w/ Metal Ring Yes/MT No
3573 The Little Old Long Cabin In The Lane Metropolitan Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3617 Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia Collins & Harlan Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3630 If I'm Not At The Roll-Call, Etc H. Wilson Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
3670 Till We Meet Again Gladys Rice & Vernon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
3796 Don't Forget The Salvation Army Arthur Fields Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4064 Who'll Take The Place Of Mary T. O'Farrell Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4072 I'll See You In C.U.B.A Fred Hillebrand Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4085 Pretty Kitty Kelly W. Bonner Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4098 Jean- Medley Fox Trot Wiedoeft's Palace Trio Plaster of Paris No No
4114 Tired Of Me George Ballard Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4192 The Life Insurance Policy Colden & Hughes Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4236 That Old Irish Mother Of Mine Allen McQuhae Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4299 Pass Me Not O Gentile Savior Metropolitan Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes/MT Yes
4332 Pucker Up & Whistle - Fox Trot Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4422 When You And I Were Young Maggie Herbert Soman Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4424 Molly On A Trolley Vernon Dalhart & Betsy Shepherd Plaster of Paris Yes No
4426 Three O'Clock In The Morning Medley Waltz Club de Vingt Orchestra Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4436 O Happy Day Metropolitan Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4495 House O'Dreams L. James Plaster of Paris Yes/Mt No
4496 Brother Low Down Al Bernard Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4529 Who Stole The Chickens Colden & Hughes Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4535 I Ain't Nobody's Darling R. Perkins Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4584 Flannigan And His Motor Car Steve Porter Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4731 Frolic Of The Coons Fred Van Eps Plaster of Paris No No
4824 It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo Wendell Hall Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4825 Momma Goes Where Pappa Goes Elsie Clark Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4898 The Wreck On The Southern Old 97 Vernon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4914 The Old Red Barn John Baltzell Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4918 Durang Hornpipe Medley J.Baltzell Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
4954 The Prisoners Song Guy S. Massey Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
4962 Dancing On The House Top Fred Van Eps Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
5027 Rovin' Gambler Vernon Dalhart & Company Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5085 Dream Of The Miner's Child Rev Andrew Jenkins, Vernin Halhart & Co Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5086 Roll Em' Girls (Roll Your Own Fox Trot) The Florida Four Chrous Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5122 The Freight Wreck At Altoona Vernon Dalhart & Company Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
5127 The Wreck of 1250 Vernon Dalhart & Company Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
5135 The Engineer's Child Maggie Andrews, Vernon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5154 I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again Vernon Dalhart & Company Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5172 Prisoners Sweethart Charles Harrison Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
5273 Roll Jordan Roll Fisk University Jubille Quartet Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5297 Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Ernest Stoneman Plaster of Paris Yes No
5314 The Bully Of The Town Ernest Stoneman & The Dixie Mountineers Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5315 Bury Me Not On The Lone Prarie Vernon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5321 Get Away Old Man, Get Away Frank Crumit, Venon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5349 Where We Never Grow Old Sam Patterson Trio Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
5352 The Mocking Bird John Baltzell Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5355 The Fatal Wedding Ernest Stoneman & The Dixie Mountineers Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5356 Lucky Lindy Vernon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5383 The Bright Sherman Valley Ernest Stoneman & The Dixie Mountineers Plaster of Paris Yes Yes
5411 The Tramp Waltz John Baltzell Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
5460 O Dem Golden Slippers Vernon Dalhart Plaster of Paris Yes/MT No
23193 Forget Me Nots Charles Compton Plaster of Paris Yes Yes

[rgordon939]

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Rich Gordon

[soundgen]

Check them out yourself ! don't ask others to do it for you , it isn't that difficult go to popsike ! What a cheek ! I've got 200, 000 78s please tell me which ones are valuable file attached At least it will be your one and only post PLONKER ( won't translate easily into American English )

[AZ*]

Is this real? How can you possibly have 96 BAs without "The Old Oaken Bucket," "Silver Threads among the Gold" or "Trail of the Lonesome Pine"?

[VanEpsFan1914]

OK, all foolishness aside, those are some great cylinders. If you would like to get rid of some, let me know as I see a bunch of titles I'd like. (I also have an Amberola 30...best small phonograph in its class.)

Generally the 5000 and up series are going to be worth more. Uncle Josh Buys an Automobile is also going to get some interest. (I have it on Victor; though Uncle Josh humor is very dependent on who's listening, he scored well with that one. Your Model T Ford people will buy it.)

I may not be able to appraise them but if you're selling I may be buying; PM me if you'd like to sell a couple.

[Lucius1958]

Note: those with the cardboard core and metal ring are U.S. Indestructibles, not Blue Amberols.

-Bill

[Curt A]

The majority are not all that interesting, but you do have several that are worth more than $5...

If you decide to sell any of them, list them with asking prices, don't ask for "offers"... this is not eBay.

[epigramophone]

American Civil War, First World War and anything by Vernon Dalhart are the ones listed which are of most interest to me. Most comedy of that era has not aged well and is best forgotten.

[Governor Flyball]

...Uncle Josh Buys an Automobile is also going to get some interest. (I have it on Victor; though Uncle Josh humor is very dependent on who's listening...

The Edison cylinder from 1909 is a longer version with more laughs than the more concise 1914 Victor version. I like both versions but what I prefer in the Victor version is the extended line "... and it ran cross James Fisher's pasture, killed four sheep and a calf and then ran onto a haystack and blowed up!..."

The Edison leaves out the blowed up line.

[VanEpsFan1914]

I saw "Preacher and the Bear" in there. That is one of the few Blue Amberols to have an announcement. (My version is the 2-m black wax of 1905.)

Thanks for sharing this list with us. Nice to see some neat old records still out there.