Domestic Collectables

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Magic Lantern Magic Lantern Slides Wax Recording Cylinders Irons

Magic Lantern & Magic Lantern Slides

These Have Been Moved to Our Optical Page

Wax Recording Cylinders

(Note: The Edison Gold Moulded are supposedly all two minute cylinders. The 2-minute cylinders have 100 grooves per inch--the 4-minute have 200 grooves per inch)

Stocks of these are running low and it is unlikely we shall be listing any more, the following listed in black are all available at £6.00 each. Boxes where included will have soiling, wear, chips and rubbing consistent with their age and use:

First Come - First Served

Sterling Record SOLD	1038 - Jenny Jones Piccolo Solo by Eli Hudson (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, playing surface has scratches and one chip
Edison SOLD	803 -My Old Dutch, Whelan (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Record	10203 - I'm Tired Of Living Without You, Will Oakland (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Record	10245 - We've Been Chums For Fifty Years (Blac) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Record	10290 - Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland, Wheeler & Anthony (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and (wrong) lid. Cylinder intact, with gouge on surface
Edison Record SOLD	13777 - A Merry Christmas And A happy New Year, George Formby (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Record	13784 - Rising Early In The Morning, Lauder (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Record SOLD	13874 - Preciosa March, Concertina Alexandra Prince (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Standard Record	8426 - My Old Kentucky Home, Mandolin Siegel (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Standard Record SOLD	10517 - Wanted A Harp Like The Angels Play, Will Oakland (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, fair amount surface marks
Edison Amberol Record	10 - The Holy City (Adams) Tenor Solo Reed Miller (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Amberol Record SOLD	154 - The Skater Waltz, NY Mil Band (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Amberol Record SOLD	598 - Home. Sweet Home (John Howard (Payne) male voices/Knickerbocker Quartette (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Amberol Record	820 - Pinafore Airs No.2, Edison Light Opera Co. (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Amberol Record	2215 - Favorite Airs Pirates Of Penzance, Edison Light Opera Co. (Black) SOLD	Provided with box & lid for protection although wrong for cylinder. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage.
Edison Amberol Record SOLD	12016 - Our Troops, Nat Mil Band (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Amberol Record	2179 - Favourite Airs From Mikado, Edison Comic Opera Co. (Blue) SOLD	In box but NO lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage. (Box is Edison Amberol so maybe wrong box for cylinder)
Edison Amberol Record SOLD	12290 - Don't Go Down In The Mine Dad, Stanley Kirkby (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Amberol Record	12289 - The Chocolate Soldier Selection, Nat Mil Band (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, few slight surface scratches
Edison Amberol Record	23269 - Ballet Egyptien No 4, N. M. Band (Blue) SOLD	In box but NO lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage. (Wrong box, Edison Amberol box with original title crossed and tipexed out)
Edison Amberol Record	28174 - Progue From Pagliacci, T Chabers (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage. Wrong box, original title crossed and tipexed out
Edison Blue Amberol Record	2157 - Ruy Blas Overture, Victor Hebert & His Orch. (Blue) SOLD	Provided with box & Lid for protection although wrong for cylinder. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record	529 - Quartette From Rigoletto, Frank Croxton Quartette (Blue) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record SOLD	1600 - Home Sweet Home The World Over, Edison Concert Band (Blue) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record SOLD	1648 - Dixie, NY Mil Band Fife And Drum Corps & Chorus (Blue) SOLD	Complete with box and lid (a little more ragged than usual). Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record	5351 - Killiecrankie, H. Lauder (Blue)	Complete with box but NO lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record SOLD	2214 - A Little Love, A Little Kiss, Reed Miller (Blue) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record	23027 - Little Willies Woodbines, B. Williams (Blue) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, playing surface has what looks like scuffs on it.
Edison Blue Amberol Record	23031- Burial Of Sir John Moore Recitation, Williams (Blue)	Supplied with box and lid for protection although wrong one. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Blue Amberol Record?? SOLD	23139 - The Awakening Of Scrooge, B. R. Williams (Purple)	Provided with box & Lid for protection although wrong for cylinder. Cylinder has playing wear at one end.
Edison Blue Amberol Record	23170 - Selections From The Godoliers, Nat'l Mil Band (Blue) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage. Wrong box, label different
Edison Blue Amberol Record	23185 - Soflty Awakes My Heart (Cornet), Sergt C. Leggett	Complete with box and lid (may be wrong, label covered with plain label). Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Bell Gold Moulded Records SOLD	30 - Boys Of The Old Brigade, L. R. B. (Black)	Complete with box and (wrong) lid. Cylinder intact, soil marks on surface
Edison Bell Gold Moulded Records SOLD	6430 - Under A Panama, Medrow (Black)
Edison Bell Gold Moulded Record SOLD	6669 - The Trumpeter, Peter Dawson (Black)	Complete with box and (wrong) lid. Cylinder intact, soil marks on surface
Edison Bell Gold Moulded Record SOLD	6792 - My Wife Won't Let Me, Vesta Victoria (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, soil marks on surface
Edison Bell Gold Moulded Record SOLD	6898 - The Singer Was Irish, Peter Dawson (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, rubs or white soil marks on surface
Edison Gold Moulded Record SOLD	132 - All Aboard For Margate, Florrie Forde & Orch (Black)	Complete with box and (wrong) lid (lid from another recording used and name altered by hand. Cylinder intact, bad scratch at one end across grooves
Edison Gold Moulded Record SOLD	5013 - Ben Bolt, Frank Stanley ( Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage
Edison Gold Moulded Records SOLD	13059 - Belphegor March, British Military Band (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage but well played
Edison Bell Consolidated Phonograph Co. London	5720 - Salvage Man, Bluff (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage but soil marks on surface
Edison Bell Consolidated Phonograph Co. London	6060 - Novelette, Will Evans (Black) SOLD	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact with small chips at end some surface marks
Columbia Gold Moulded Indestructible Cylinder SOLD	840 - Mandolin Solo Estellita Waltz, Siegel (Black)	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, no obvious damage. Lid is plain and seems too large for box, so may not be original
Clarion Record, London	9 - Music Hall Medley No. 1, Premier Concert Orch	Complete with box and lid. Cylinder intact, scuff marks on 30% of surface
Lambert Permanent Record SOLD	Soldaten Lieder, LMR	Cylinder intact, no obvious damage. Box is Lambert, no lid, We don't know if record is in right box

Irons

Great ornaments for hearth or shelf singly or in groups, and a reminder of times past when everyday tasks were more involved.

If you collect these items as much information as we have is given

Stating the obvious!! - Irons are heavy and cost lots to post

Please note, some irons are polished with black grate polish and may dirty hands until the surface is rubbed down well with a dry cloth - take care when first unpacking

In the 1920s, ironing was done with flat irons or box irons. The flat irons were heated on top of the kitchen stove and the box Irons had heater (usually, made in the smiddy). The heaters were pushed into the heart of the fire until they were red hot, and were taken out slipped into the iron and used until they got cool, when it was then put back into the fire and the hot one taken out. For a big ironing there were many changes of heaters. In the l930’s petrol irons were used. There was a round container at the back of the iron filled with petrol and one fill did a lot of clothes. By the 1940’s electric irons were in use. The electricity and the water in the houses were great boons and took a lot of hard work out of the daily chores.