UK BERLINER 4 angel logos etched in grooves

	£		78
	$		103

AN INCREDIBLY RARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY ONE OF THE FIRST RECORDS SOLD IN THE UK!!

THIS ONE IS ESPECIALLY RARE AS IT HAS 4 OF THE "ANGEL" LOGOS ETCHED INTO THE SURFACE OF THE ACTUAL GROOVES THEMSELVES!!! - much like a modern lazer cut fancy 45 nowadays!!

THIS BERLINER DISC WAS RECORDED OVER 100 YEARS AGO BY MUSIC HALL STAR HARRY TAYLOR

EMILE BERLINER

 

While Emile Berliner never actually appeared on any records, no records could have appeared without him. The compact disc generation can also mull over the man's importance, as Berliner was the first man to introduce the concept of a "disc" as a medium to be played on his newly invented gramophone. His competition at the time, the much better known Thomas Edison still thought a cylinder was the way to go, but he was ever so wrong. The disc concept was conceptually the key to the entire concept of mass production of recordings   Berliner came to Washington from his native Germany at the age 19; the year was 1870. At home he had worked as a printer and fabric store clerk. He had already demonstrated talent as an inventor, coming up on the latter job with a new type of loom. In the United States he studied physics part time and worked in a chemical laboratory. Seeing Alexander Graham Bell demonstrate his telephone at the U.S. Centennial Exposition inspired him to come up with improvements, like many inventors of the day. In a bit more than a decade Berliner had designed a basic microphone that vastly improved transmission sound and had unveiled both a gramophone that played flat discs and a system for pressing these records. He invited musicians to come and record for him on zinc plates, thereby becoming the recording industry's first, and certainly most intelligent, A&R man. Berliner's gramophone and pressing system was purchased by the Victor Talking Machine Company, which later became RCA. Abroad, Berliner personally founded Deutsche Grammophon and the British Gramophone as his international marketing channel. It was Berliner who came up with a cute trademark taken from a painting of a dog listening to a phonograph, an image that was appropriated lock, stock and canine by RCA. Berliner also invented a helicopter which flew in 1919, and the first radial aircraft engine in 1908. Nor was he only concerned with machines. He helped form a public health organization to safeguard the U.S. milk supply, and in 1911 he established a fellowship in his mother Esther Berliner's name to assist women conducting scientific research.
  DISC DETAILS   E. BERLINERS GRAMOPHONE - covered by English and Continental Patents   LONDON  COMIC SONG   You'll never be an angle(sic) daddy - sung by Harry Taylor   Catalogue number -  2(which is printed in mirror image)880   matrix numbers - D-15    T 658   the record details are etched directly into the black shellac (there were no labels) - so these pictures are incredibly enhanced in order to read the etchings   Overall condition is Good - It plays strongly on my garrard deck without skipping - with some background noise - but overall not too bad at all for a berliner!   THE 4 ANGEL LOGO'S LIGHTLY STAMPED DIRECTLY ONTO THE GROOVES ARE LOCATED ROUGHLY AT 1 O'CLOCK, 4 O'CLOCK, 7 O'CLOCK AND 10 O'CLOCK - THEY CAN ONLY BE SEEN IN INCIDENTAL LIGHT SO I HAD A VERY HARD TIME TRYING TO SHOW THEM UP ON THE SCANNER (see third picture)   The reverse side does not have  the angel logo stamped on it - just "REPRODUCED IN HANOVER" in small letters because of this I would tentatively date this record as circa 1900.     THIS IS AN ULTRA RARE, UNIQUE AND HISTORIC RECORD!!!

SO DON'T MISS OUT !!!   -  BID NOW!!

On 29-Oct-05 at 08:29:50 BST, seller added the following information:

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