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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2820

Edison United Phonograph Co (NJ), $1000 4% collateral trust mortgages, 1903, #43 and higher, sphinx, green, ABN, four coupons, folds, mostly VF+. The Edison phonograph was the first of its kind and ushered in the era of sound recording; when disc records replaced Edison´s cylinders, he was slow to adapt, and when he finally switched to discs in 1912, they were incompatible with competitors´ phonographs. [8]

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