[78-L] Jimmie Allen ET stampers on ePay

[Michael Biel]

On 5/31/2011 12:38 AM, Sammy Jones wrote:
> Two metal stampers for the early '30s syndicated show, The Air Adventures of
> Jimmie Allen, came up in my ePay saved searches the other day.
> Unfortunately, the auctions (actually, Buy It Now) were over before I even
> read the email...
>

I hope the person who got them appreciates what he has here.  They went 
thru the auction twice with no bids the first time even though one was 
$24.95.  The $49.95 and $59.95 buy it nows are pretty reasonable.  I am 
wondering if the earlier one,  Prog 319, is a gold master since these 
are World Broadcasting System Western Electric masters.  Prog 526 is 
obviously nickel, but it also is a different matrix series with an H 
prefix.  Not World??

> Here are links to the items with lots of photos...I'm interested if anybody
> has had success playing stampers of radio ETs like this.  You have to use a
> forked stylus, right?  Are those available anywhere?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=
> true&item=370514156166&si=PI3ZGYab4UKfT1Zh4miNvhphQN4%253D&viewitem=&sspagen
> ame=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1123
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=
> true&item=140556674614&si=PI3ZGYab4UKfT1Zh4miNvhphQN4%253D&viewitem=&sspagen
> ame=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1123
>
> These would have been nice to add to my collection, especially since I have
> acetate (yes, really acetate--the red, floppy kind!) pressings of four
> Jimmie Allen shows.  Ah, well...
>
> Sammy (a little late) Jones
>

Yeah, me too.  I hope the buyer is part of the established OTR groups, 
and maybe we'll find more about them.

Mike  Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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