MEGA RARITY c. 1904 WHITE NEOPHONE PHONOGRAPH DISC
  £   128
  $   170

 


£ 128 Sold For
Dec 11, 2012 Sold Date
Dec 4, 2012 Start Date
£   80 Start price
4   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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OK, WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE ONE OF THESE? IT'S A SUPER-RARE C. 1904 WHITE PLASTIC INDESTRUCTIBLE 'SYSTEM DR.MICHAELIS' NEOPHONE PHONOGRAPH DISC , No. 15749, OF 'HELDENRUF MARCH' BY THE ROYAL MILITARY BAND. THESE WERE THE FIRST VERTICAL CUT DISC RECORDS PRODUCED, PRESSED IN A WHITE PLASTIC TYPE MATERIAL ONTO A PAPIER MACHE CORE AND SOLD VERY POORLY, CONSEQUENTLY ARE EXTREMELY RARE. THIS IS WHAT RECORDING PIONEER JOE BATTEN SAID OF THE COMPANY:- "Neophone records were made of papier mache, and were advertised as "warranted indestructible". To prove this, Dr. Michaelis would assemble a group of potential buyers at the top of a four-storeyed building, then standing at the corner of Worship Street and the City Road, and demonstrate by throwing a record out of the open window to the street below. A boy then dashed down the stairs and retrieved the record. This was then played, and as it emitted its normal noises this was clear evidence that it was none the worse for its rough treatment. But although customers did not buy records to drop on the heads of unsuspecting pedestrians, yet all might have gone well had not the records, when displayed in shop windows, curled up in the sun and assumed pathetic surrealistic shapes. The records did not sell, the upshot of this was that many hundreds of recordings of military bands, banjo soloists, concertina players, and singers, both comic and serious, were made, but never heard."

CONDITION: VIRTUALLY UNPLAYABLE, DUE TO SURFACE DELAMINATION IN SPOTS, A COMMON OCCURRENCE ON AN EXTREMELY UNCOMMON RECORD!


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