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Here's a Busy Bee cylinder record whose condition is exceptional -- about as good as you'll find. The box and the cylinder are both very clean, close to mint, with a single tiny needle dig on the surface of the wax, but no mold anywhere. Matching lid and matching record slip.
The record number is 153, and the title is "I May Be Crazy, But I Ain't No Fool." No one is credited with the performance, but I believe the singer is Bob Roberts, who first recorded the song for Columbia in 1904 or 1905.
Box litho is beautiful, record slip is complete, lid fits snugly onto the box.
A nice addition to any advanced collection of early recordings and record boxes.
I'm one of ebay's best known, most highly regarded sellers of antique phonographs. I've been selling and shipping them for more than 25 years. When you purchase an antique phonograph from me, you'll receive a phonograph that arrives safely because it's been carefully packed (by me, not by some well-intentioned but nonetheless confounded, doe-eyed teenager working at the UPS store who wouldn't know a phonograph from a flagpole), and you'll receive a phonograph that includes thorough but easy-to-understand set-up and operating instructions, so you won't be left scratching your head, trying to figure out how it works. Sure, you can probably get a lower price from Joe and Janet Barn-Find, but when your "bargain" arrives broken, and without any hint of how it works or how you might be able to put it back together, you'll realize that you really do get exactly what you pay for.