£20 each including postage within the UK

Indestructible 2 minute cylinders  24,6,26

Most phonograph cylinders produced from 1900 were made of wax. Those that have survived are often in poor condition and play badly. From 1902 experimental cylinders were produced by Edison Bell and others that were made from much tougher  materials and were called “Indestructible” . These cylinders play  better than wax ones and really show what a phonograph can do. I am surprised that these cylinders were not more readily available and are now very difficult to find in the UK. The cylinders listed below are from the US.

Can’t you see I love you                                            Jones & van Brunt                         1241

Meet me tonight in Dreamland                               van Brunt                                         1426

Steamboat leaving wharf..                                       Quartette                                         1080
Don’t wake me up                                                       van Brunt                                         1498

Roll on thou dark blue ocean                                  Allyn                                                  1055

There’ll come a day                                                    Stanley & Burr                                1163

Oh you Candy Kid                                                        Jones                                                 1127

Silver Bell                                                                       Stanley & Burr                                1413

Shall we meet beyond the river                              Anthony & Harrison                      1312

The preacher and the Bear                                       Collins                                              1087

Mister Othello                                                              Ada Jones                                        1177

Just plain folks                                                             Ada Jones                                        1313

Mary of Argyle                                                               Gunster                                            1339

Lonesome                                                                      Harlan                                               1184

Whoa Bill                                                                       Collins & Harlan                            1463

Turkey in the straw                                                      Golden                                              941

I’m tired of living without you                                  Harrey & Ellis                                  1119

Oh you lovin’ gal                                                          Collins & Harlan                            1138

Pony Boy                                                                        Quartette                                         1198

Sweetheart town                                                         Stanley & Harlan                           968

Sleep baby sleep                                                         Watson                                             1474

Tell Mother I’ll be there                                              Quartette                                         1351

I’m oold but I’m awfully tough                                Stewart                                             994

Stella                                                                               Stanley                                              953

Does your Mother know you’re out                       Watson                                             1423

The Rosary                                                                     Williams                                           1438

Dublin dasies                                                               Quartette                                         1171

If you’ve won the only one                                        Orr                                                      1023

I love my wife but Oh you kid                                   Roberts                                             1129

It’s never late till morning                                         Rob erts                                            937

Make a noise like a hoop                                          Duprez                                              1027

I  never knew I loved you ….                                     Ellis                                                    1191

The ninety and nine             

Medley of American home songs                          Band                                                  798 Pl

Two Minute “Indestructible” Phonograph Cylinders. 

New collection. Songs. Issued 1902

Fool questions                                                                                Roberts                                             851

Any old port in a storm                                                             Stanley                                              799

Bon Bon Buddie                                                                          Murray                                               794              

First rehersal for the Huskin’Bee                                           Stanley & Harlan                           903

She hasn’t done her hair up yet                                             Ada Jones                                        804

I want to be a merry merry widow                                         Jones                                                 707

Business is business with me                                                Collins                                              1326

Wouldn’t you like to have me                                                 Jones & Murray                               727

I’d rather be a lobster than a Wise Guy                               Murray                                               128

Rum-tiddley-um-tum-tay                                                         Helen Trix                                         746

It’s only me in my nightie                                                         Dorothy Kingsley                            853

In the garden of my heart                                                         Stanley & Burr                                1107

In the sunshine and the shadow..                                         Harlan                                              1271

I wish I had a pal like you                                                         Ada Jones                                        1292

How do you do Miss Josephine                                              Collins & Harlan                            1216

The Cavalier                                                                                 Stanley & Stevenson     `             710

I’m the Man                                                                                  Roberts                                             826

Hi-Le-Hi-Lo                                                                                   Watson                                             737

I want somebody to play with                                                Burr                                                    1158