There was Mamie Smith singing Crazy Blues..Ben Selvin on Vocalion playing the Charleston, and Sousa's Band playing Maple Leaf Rag...ummm...there are a lot of others I haven't gone through yet. I am sure there'll be some nice stuff. There were 15 boxes, about 300 records or so. I also bought 33 Diamond Discs, nothing spectacular but all in very good condition. nicer than most I have seen. Also bought 147 cylinder records, both 2 and 4 minute. no 5000s though. John
--- On Sat, 1/15/11, Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> wrote: From: Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty... To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:38 PM I forgot to ask: did you get any good records? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:05:13 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty... > > > Nothing like some steel wool and maybe a little cleanser to really bring out > the shine in gold leaf... :) > > > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:58:42 -0800 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Phono-L] Travesty... > > > > Hey everyone! > > I went to buy some records locally that were being sold by the daugher of > > the man that owned them. He passed away 20 years ago and all has been in > > storage. The real story is that she had sold his phonographs a few years > > back, and one was a...well, she said "there was this one Victrola that was > > all gold leafed.." I asked if it had paintings on the front and sides. She > > said it did. So it was a Vernis Martin...and she sold it to some guy for > > $7500.00. he flew to LA to see it, and she said he was sorta disappointed > > in the condition on one side because "My mother tried to clean it with > > steel wool"!!!!!!!!!! he bought it anyway though. > > John Robles > > _______________________________________________ > > Phono-L mailing list > > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
