Improved 7"  Gramophone Pre Victor Eldridge Johnson Phonograph Record     

$

159

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This record is for the ADVANCED vintage record collector..

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Picture were all taken with "NO" flash

  Song title is Crack Regiment Patrol

played by the Sousa's Band

***Very nice condition***

some small whitish marks on label

BUT

Record plays very well with  very minimal background noise.

The reverse side is blank except for the    

typical  legal notice sticker  from the Consolidated Talking Machine Co .

Very Early Scarce 7" Improved GRAM-O-PHONE record  #  A-338, in   great condition from the turn of the century dating no later then 1900.  This is a  single sided   record that has very good sound and volume and plays through smoothly without any issues on my wood horn Victor D phonograph using a fiber needle…   The background noise which is the normal for records 120 years old  is very minimal and   this record is well above average. I'm not a record collector but   I would give it an overall rating of 8+ out of 10 as far as sound quality.  I have include a picture of a small rub mark that does not effect the play at all..

From what I have seen on the internet,, it appears this US label was only produced a short time in 1900  by Eldridge R. Johnson who’s parent company was the  Consolidated Talking Machine Company of Philadelphia and preceded the Victor Talking Machine Co.   Supposedly Eldridge Johnson came up with a   superior way  in which to reproduce multiple copies of quality records  from a single master.

   This record label,   Improved Gram-O-Phone Record   was from the first run of records ever to carry a paper label but lasted only a few months making these Gram-O-Phone labeled records highly desirable to collectors.  In less then a year, through a court injunction,  Eldridge Johnson was prohibited from using the term  Gram-O-Phone  on the labels of any of  his so-called superior records thus only the  IMPROVED RECORD  was the label that  remained on his disc but only briefly.   Once he moved his operation to New Jersey, Eldridge Johnson's Consolidated Talking Machine Company reorganized and became the Victor Talking Machine Co.. 

 According to the research site   Discography of American Historical Recording's    (DAHR), the listed date for this record is   10/3/1900  . I can not see any "Take" number on the record which normally indicates Take#1.. See the last attached picture for this documentation..

I certainly am not a historian when it comes to the evolution or progression of the first records ever produced so please do your own homework as to the information I am trying to provide.  

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