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Folks,

Here we have some high-quality and rare Edison Blue Amberol cylinders. They are all in excellent condition and play well, free of cracks or other defects with glossy surfaces. Some have the original lid. All are a real pleasure to listen to. All come in an original box.

Priced individually, shipping is additional, available to anyone until the new buyer is fully secured.

Contact me at [email protected]. Thanks! Shawn

The following is the only example I've ever seen of this cylinder in 40 years.

Maggie Teyte was a famous Opera singer, and the tune is highly operatic. I've included a picture of Maggie below. Kashmiri Song is a love poem with some very sensual passages about a woman written by Laurence Hope. A man's name, right? Well, thats the scandle behind this song and the cylinder. Laurence Hope was actually a women named Adele Florence Nicholson. Something that Edison obviously did not know when he approved the release of this cylinder. Lots more to this story. A great, important, and very hard to find cylinder.
4796 Kashmiri Song - Indian Love Song - Maggie Teyte - Original Box, and correct Lid - $95.00 Another hard to find, and important cylinder

"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. With the Olympics in France, a timely record to purchase. This one is in the 28000 Concert series of cylinders. A great, important, and harder to find cylinder.
28189 La Marseillaise - Thomas Chalmers and Choir - Original correct box and correct lid - $75.00 Another hard to find set of two cylinders

AL H Weston and Irene Young were comedic performers. They only made these two cylinders for Edison in the style of Ada Jones and Billy Murray. However, they were much more talented and easy to listen to. These songs are considered "Laughing Songs." As good as they were, its a mystery whey they only performed between 1920 and 1922. A great, important, and very hard to find set of two cylinders.
This pair of cylinders - $50.00
4275 Country Days - Al H Weston and Irene Young - Original box
4296 At The Circus - Al H Weston and Irene Young - Original box and lid

For those interested in Maggie Teyte, a good biography is Garry O'Connor's The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Maggie Teyte. She certainly did sing opera (notably Debussy's Peleas et Melisande, which she studied under the composer after taking over the role of Melisande from its creator, Mary Garden), but she was particularly celebrated for her advocacy for French art songs. The selection here, "Kashmiri Song," is no. 3 of Four Indian Love Lyrics, musical settings by Amy Woodforde-Finden, also an outlier in her day as a successful female composer. It was far and away her "greatest hit" and widely recorded, including by Reinald Werrenrath, whose birthday was noted in another forum post yesterday. The cylinder is a dub from diamond disc 82205.

(Apologies for the "factual" post in a sales thread, but I thought the extra info might be of interest.)