My father who started collecting in the 1950's also had only those 2 books. Those were the only ones available at the time. The books I have, my father's, are both first editions. But not in great shape since he obviously used them! Inside the Tinfoil to Stereo is a printed letter from A.Nugent of Va., who states that the publisher discontinued the book, and that he had gotten several hundred copies which he was selling...that since it was so popular and one of the only books on the subject, he "didn't know how long" the copies would last before sell-out. :)
Ger ger55 on ebay; [email protected] Victorian Glass Plus! http://www.tias.com/stores/vgpp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glass_antique_and_old/ ----- Original Message ----- From: DeeDee Blais To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:38 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Tinfoil To Stereo For those that get tired of stories from "back when I was a new collector", you can tune out now. When I started collecting in the early 70's, the only books that were available were "Tinfoil to Stereo" first printed in 1959 and "The Fabulous Phonograph" first printed in 1954. I was introduced to both those books by Ira Dueltgen. He had an extra copy of "The Fabulous Phonograph" that he gave or sold me at a modest price. I was disappointed to find out that "Tinfoil" was out of print and I had to wait what seemed like forever before the second edition was available. When I was looking for the photo of the Diamond Disk with the loud speaking attachment I checked the inside cover and found that my copy came through several collectors. On the inside cover it says: "Received 1-13-66, Purchased from A. Nugent Jr. 3804 Charles City Rd. Richmond, Va. Property of H. Claire Carpenter Sr. .... Sold to Ira Dueltgen by Mr. Carpenter's widow .... Purchased from Ira by John Davis in 1978 ... gift from John Davis to Jerry Blais 12-11-2006. I sold my second edition copy of Tinfoil from a posting on phono-l some time ago. We have so many wonderful phonograph books. My only difficulty today is trying to process so much information. Happy collecting, Jerry Blais ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org From [email protected] Wed Mar 12 01:53:12 2008 From: [email protected] (ger) Date: Wed Mar 12 00:53:22 2008 Subject: [Phono-L] Moldy wax records Message-ID: <002a01c8841e$818d8540$6c9fe...@ger1> What does one do with moldy wax records? Throw them away? Or save them for the interesting titles, with hopes that someday someone will figure out how to "fix" them? :) Thanks, Ger
