Henrietta Have You Met Her ? - Dan W. Quinn - 1895 Berliner Record 

An authentic jewel. ❤

@RaymondTVinyl Thank you Raymond for your generous comments, it is much appreciated. I has taken me many many years to accumulate all of these Icons from the early days of recorded sound. This Berliner and several others were found n an old cellar in Plymouth, Massachusetts about 5 years ago. The people were in process of cleaning out the old home which had been sold, and if I had not been made aware of the records and got there a day later, they would have gone to the dump & been crushed.

I have found some self intro 78s with grooves destroyed on purpose. Some person did not like to hear the intro every time it was played.

Oh my Goodness!!! That has to be the oldest record I've EVER seen!!! Just WOW!! 116 yrs old! I had no idea that they made records that long ago...I thought there were only cylinders. Thank U for sharing this amazing thing!

Beautiful Berliner! WOW! Chilling to hear! I am loving this! THANK YOU!

That's great Bruce, I love to hear you play the real old ones, let's see more :)

very cool.

wow thats amazing

That is the earliest disc record I have ever heard! (Mine go back only to May 1896.) - I understand that John W. Bratton later (1907) composed 'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' in its original instrumental form.

buenasa la cancion me gusta mucho la musica de el gran dan w quinn y seria hermoso escucharlo con ese aparato de esos tiempos

Thanks so much for sharing! Charming tune.

When this record was new it would have been played on a hand wound gramophone, where the speed would have been impossible to keep steady, and the horn would have been a tiny tinny thing. even through 116 years of static we can hear it in better quality than the people who first listened to it in 1895.

Record is 125 years old now in 2020!

What a treasure!

@kirtley2010 Yes indeed, that is why I reacted as I did to your original comment. Those folks from over a hundred years ago, had absolutely no idea that 111 years hence their Berlner Records would be sought after by Collectors as "amazing Historical Icons from the bygone past", so they routinely drilled these larger holes in their existing records so they could play them on their Standard or other large spindle hole phonographs.

would this record be for sale

@kirtley2010 Why do you say that? That was common practice back around the turn of Century when people who bought Standards machines with the large spindle holes, routinely drilled out there regular spindle records so they could play them on the Standard. What control would someone in the 21st Century Have, if they found several of them 117 years later. The Solution is to insert the sizing ring into the center of the hole as I am doing here and still enjoy this historical Icon.

@Turkeydoodlers Thank you Mr. Turkeydoodler, keep in mind that I do not have an unlimited supply of these early, very rare and difficult to find treasures, so I need to stretch them out. However, I will be posting one more in the very near future, done by one none other then the "Silver Voiced Irish Tenor" himself, Mr. George J. Gaskin, who was among the most popular very early Artists to record in the very early days. He first Recorded as early as 1891 !!

@victrolaman the only good thing about uk berliners is that in this country we didnt have machines with large spindle holes unless they had been imported so all of them are reasonably intact

I used to have this on Columbia brown wax.

@kirtley2010 But I bet you would not smash them or toss it them out, if you found 5 or 6 with holes punched in them, in an old Candy Box down in someone's cellar ??!! The voice, the song, and all the history that goes with it is still there, regardless of the mutilation that was done to it !!

The spoken introductions on many (most) Berliners are often severely worn (sometimes even obliterated) by the combination of the use of the steel needles and heavy reproducer.

That was great Victroliaman i love Dan W. Quinn one of my all time favroites hey i have some Victors up on my channel you can go check them out now.

I wonder if this is on hard rubber and whether each one had to be recorded independently or whether there was a master stamper.

1895? Is that record made of hard rubber?