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
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