"E. BERLINER'S GRAMOPHONE" RARE UNUSUAL "TEST PRESSING" ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
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HERE IS A VERY UNUSUAL BERLINER DISC, NUMBER 697, WHICH APPEARS TO BE MOLDED ONTO ANOTHER 10 INCH DISC. IT IS LABELED TEST PRESSING, FROM RCA VICTOR. BASED ON WHAT I CAN SEE, THIS IS A BERLINER DISC BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL TITLED "HOPE". RCA EVIDENTLY PLACED THIS WHITE TEST PRESSING LABEL OVER THE BERLINER LABEL. I CAN SEE PART OF THE "E. BERLINER'S GRAMOPHONE" WHERE THE RCA LABEL DIDN'T COMPLETELY COVER IT. ALSO, YOU CAN SEE PART OF THE BERLINER NUMBER 697 THAT WASN'T COMPLETELY COVERED, AS WELL AS TOTALLY SEEING THE WORDS NEW YORK, SO I KNOW THERE IS A BERLINER DISC HERE. (IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICS CAREFULLY, YOU MAY SEE SOME OF THESE ITEMS). THE CLOSEST THING I HAVE FOUND RESEMBLING THIS DISC WERE A COUPLE OF BERLINER TEST PRESSINGS ON POPSIKE, BUT THE BERLINER LABELS WERE STILL IN VIEW, AND THESE DISCS WERE 1/4 OF AN INCH THICK. THE DISC I HAVE HERE IS THE STANDARD THICKNESS OF A REGULAR 78 RPM RECORD, WITH THE BERLINER PORTION RAISED JUST SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE REST OF THE DISC. THERE ARE NO GROOVES IN THE OUTER 1 & 1/2 INCHES OF THE DISC, THE GROOVES BEGIN AT THE BERLINER PORTION. OVERALL, THIS DISC STILL HAS A NICE AMOUNT OF SHEEN, AND WHILE I SEE RANDOM "WRINKLES" SCATTERED ACROSS THE BERLINER PORTION OF THE DISC, I SEE JUST A FEW LITE SCRATCHES, (THE LONGEST A QUARTER OF AN INCH), AND NO HEAVY ONES. I HAVE INCLUDED A SOUND CLIP OF THE ENTIRE DISC SO YOU CAN BETTER JUDGE THE CONDITION. I AM JUST USING A STANDARD 78RPM STYLUS TO PLAY IT--I WOULD ASSUME THEY PLAY BETTER WITH A CERTAIN STYLUS; I KNOW LITTLE ABOUT BERLINER DISCS. YOU'LL HEAR HISS THROUGHOUT THE RECORDING, BUT THERE ARE NO SKIPS. YOU'LL SEE IN THE PICS THAT THE FLIP SIDE IS ONE SPIRAL GROOVE SPACED 1/4 INCH FROM BEGINNING TO END, WITH A DIFFERENT RCA LABEL ON THIS SIDE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DISC, PLEASE E-MAIL. WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE--WORLDWIDE SHIPPING DETERMINED AT AUCTION END. Powered by eCommercePlayer.com
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