Scarce 7" Improved (Pre Victor) Eldridge Johnson Phonograph Record A-923
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This record is for the vintage record/phonograph collector that knows what they are looking at.
PLEASE, VIEW THE PICTURES PROVIDED…
Some smudging on label No cracks, scratches or needle digs in playing surface.
You can see etched numbering information faintly on the top of the record around the area of the label…
The reverse side is blank except for a number.
Very Early Scarce 7" Improved (Victor) Eldridge Johnson record # A-923, in very good condition from the turn of the century. This is a single sided announced record that has great volume and plays through smoothly without any issues on my Victor D phonograph using a fiber needle… As usual there is background noise which is the norm for records over 110 years old. I'm not a record collector but I would give it an overall rating of 7.5 out of 10 only because of the background noise.
I noticed a couple dimples in the play area surface that are very common with these early 100 year plus records but it does not effect the play at all in my opinion.. I have enclosed a picture of them in the listing so check it out..
From what I have seen on the internet,, it appears the US label was produced around 1900-1903 by Eldridge R. Johnson's 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.
Initially these records carried the label Improved Gram-O-Phone Record the first records ever to carry a paper label but within a year, through a court injunction, he was prohibited from using the term Gram-O-Phone on the labels of any of his superior records thus only the IMPROVED RECORD label remained. Once he moved his operation to New Jersey, Eldridge Johnson's Consolidated Talking Machine Company reorganized and became the Victor Talking Machine Co..
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