[78-L] sleeve date needed

[Michael Biel]

Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> anybody who can give an approx date of this sleeve...?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/78-RPM-record-sleeve-Talking-Machine-extremely-rare_W0QQitemZ260296346486QQihZ016QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>   
This is indeed early.  Ray Wile might be the one to try to date it via 
the Phila address because he has noted the locations of the company 
offices in the Phila/Camden area and might have noted store addresses.   
Maybe a Phila person could check the phone books or business 
directories.   It would be great if the picture was in focus and we 
could read the small lettering, but it ain't worth over a hundred bucks 
to see it!!  I'd say it was before 1910 but that is only a guess.  This 
is a dealer sleeve of the type that became common in England, Denmark, 
and a few other European countries but not too common here in the U.S.  
For the record, this sleeve notes The Talking Machine Co. is the 
"exclusive showrooms for Victor" at 143 S. Broad. and the N.E. corner of 
Broad and Columbia.  The first one is right by City Hall.  What's there 
now?  The second one is where Temple University is now.  This location 
is a block or so below Russel Conwell's Baptist Temple.  That specific 
corner is where the riot in the Summer of 1964 was centered.  When I 
arrived to start my freshman year there, the police riot command trailer 
was still parked in the middle of campus.  (Maybe the community was 
pissed off because they couldn't get their spring Victrolas repaired 
there anymore.) 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com