The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

If you have any rare records or cylinders for sale at the Chicago APS Show, please stop by my end booth which is right when you walk in the room across from Charley Hummel.

I am looking to buy 78 rpm records (Mostly, pre-WWII electric recordings by African American artists and integrated groups….yet there are certainly exceptions). Label examples: Columbia, Okeh, Victor, Vocalion, Gennett, QRS, Brunswick, Paramount, Herwin, ARC, Bluebird, etc.)

• Uncommon country and string bands
  Jug bands
  Gospel
  Blues & Jazz
  Cajun
  Historical and spoken word
  Native American
  Hot dance bands
  Recordings with kazoo and/or washboard
  Early Berliners (mostly 1896 and earlier)
  Very early Eldridge Johnson or Victor
  Victor Deluxe or Columbia 14” discs from ~1902-03
  Pre 1904 operatic
  Foreign (Latin American, eastern Europe, Russian, South African, Cuban)
  Early advertising records

I am also looking for these types of cylinder recordings.

• Early brown wax, mostly pre-1899
  Edison North American (these have a channeled end rim)
  Operatic
  AICC recordings
  Bettini
  Peter Bacigalupi
  Polyphone
  Bell & Tainter
  Independent recordings (examples include Kansas City Talking Machine Company, Michigan Electric, Ohio Phonograph Company, US Phonograph Company, etc.)

Thank you, Ken

17166 Beechwood Ave.
Beverly Hills, MI 48025
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