My
Antique
Record Collection
Here you will
find photos of various interesting record labels and other items from my
collection. This section is by no means intended to be comprehensive.
Rather, its purpose is to introduce you to the hobby and allow you
to view some of the items in my collection that I think you might
find interesting. For a more comprehensive look at 78rpm
record labels, I suggest visiting the
78rpm
Home Page.
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This
is an Edison Diamond Disc record. It is so called because, rather
than using the steel needles required to play most disc records of the
day, Edison's discs required a diamond stylus. These records were
about a half inch thick. Like the early cylinder records, diamond
discs were recorded in the "hill and dale" method, meaning the indentations
in the grooves went up and down. Most other companies used the vertical
method where the needle zig zagged back and forth in the groove.
Diamond Discs had excellent sound quality and were considered a premium
product. A major drawback however was that one could not play them
on rival gramophones, such as the Victrola, which had a larger market share.
This record is from the mid-1920s
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