[78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No. 548

[David Lennick]

Signed waxes were fairly common in the 1910s (and earlier?), lots of them on 
Columbia..Casals, Hofmann, Weber and Fields come to mind, comedian Billy 
Williams on Jumbo, Walter Gieseking on Homochord (I think) in the 20s, 
Stravinsky on Telefunken in the 30s. Who else?

dl

On 1/8/2012 10:48 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> This evening, a fellow gave me the 6" Emerson, No. 548, "The Peace Patrol,"
> with music composed by Charlie Chaplin, and played by Metropolitan Military
> Band (Irony right there). Noticed the dead wax includes more than the
> matrix number, it has Charlie's autograph stamped on to the disc as well.
> Was this common, done by other performers, composers? From about 1916, but
> unsure of date.
>
> Dennis
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