[78-L] Curious find of Berliner's Lords Prayer

[David Lennick]

I have a copy. Kurt Nauck had one listed not long ago for $50. Actually, I have 
a lot of rare spoken word 78s listed on 78-C (a Yahoo group).

dl

On 4/4/2011 9:17 AM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I do have a friend who is an authority on GBS who would LOVE to have that
> Linguaphone 78.
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, RUSSELL BARNES
> <r.barnes4 at btopenworld.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Last week found (in a furniture restorer's workshop) in Wiltshire, UK a
>> couple of boxes of 78s.
>>
>> Most are in clean condition but somewhat warped.   Odd things :-
>>
>> A 12" single sided - white label - pressing of Emile Berliner's " Lord's
>> Prayer "  presumably from the 5" disc.   So a twelve inch dia pressing, with
>> about an inch or so of the recording, followed by a long spiral run out to
>> the label.   Typed label  - "The voice of the Inventor of the Gramophone" -
>> and alongside but written in ink the date 1948.
>>
>> In the run-off are the letters ( hardy visible ) BBC and a number
>> 12RH51705.  Strange as it may seem I think it's pressed in shellac - but it
>> just could be vinyl.   Anyone heard of it ?
>>
>> Others in the finds - 12" Red Label DECCA of an "Air Battle over the
>> English Channel " during WWII.
>>
>> Bernard Shaw on Linguaphone.
>> Gas Shells Bombardment during WWI
>> Leo Tolstoy on HMV Historic
>>
>> Any information much appreciated,
>>
>> Russ Barnes
>> Dorset, UK
>>
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