6 United Records "United Talking Machine Company"


Item Number: 427

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $25

Online Close: Mar 16, 2014 9:00 PM EDT

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Description

Here are 6 different UNITED RECORD label 78 rpm records from the United Talking Machine Co, Chicago, Ill, c.1908-1916. This was a strictly mail-order phonograph company that sold phonographs with an oversized spindle, a little over 1-3/8" diameter. The only records you could play on them were, incidentally, sold by this same company via mail-order using their UNITED RECORD label. 

The United Talking Machine Company didn't actually make phonographs. Instead, they contracted Columbia Graphonola to make them, also in Chicago. As you'd expect, they look very similar to the Columbia phonographs of the period, only with the oversized spindle.

They didn't actually make their own records, either. United bought unused pressings from Columbia Records, punched a bigger hole and pasted their label over Columbia's. Sometimes United changed the artist credit, and sometimes they didn't. All the records offered here are identical to the Columbia catalog, same songs, artists, and catalog numbers. Not too surprising.

That being said, they are laterally cut so you can play them on a regular 78 rpm turntable if you get them centered. 

Special Instructions

These six recordings are: A724, A1148, A905, A825, A852, A586.


These are donated by Ron Hadley of Middlebury.


May be shipped at winner's expense or picked up in Middlebury, VT.