Not bad... your taste in music is similar to mine, according to the titles you
mentioned. I like 20's blues and jazz - Ben Selvin is one of my favorites.
> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:35:35 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty...
>
> 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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