Hello all I still have Ferguson books available along with a quantity of original Ferguson cylinder box labels. For those that don't know, the book is entitled The Edison Phonograph Company and Related Opinions of Clarencen A. Ferguson. Ferguson was the "Last Edison Dealer". He had been an Edison employee early on and became an Edison Phonograph dealer. When the phonograph part of Edison's business went out of business in 1929, he bought up stock from many dealers and jobbers who wanted to sell out and he continued repairing and selling Edison products as long as his stock lasted. He was constantly searching for mailing lists of people with Edison Phonographs, and at one point he inquired of Babson Brothers, a large Chicago jobber, for their customer list and was told it had been burned the week before! I have friends who dealt with him into the 1970s and he still had new old stock records! This book is an in depth interview that was conducted with him in the 1960s and which contains a lot of great first hand information on the Edison Phonograph Company and their products. It is a fascinating read, and each one comes with an original Clarence Ferguson cylinder box label that he used to glue onto original boxes. That is a good offer until I am out of them. The books are $12.50 postpaid inside the US. Thanks John Robles _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
