Sold Date: October 19, 2017
Start Date: October 9, 2017
Final Price: £11.50 (GBP)
Bid Count: 2
Seller Feedback: 1679
Buyer Feedback: 268

JOHN BIRMINGHAM & HIS BAND  When The Red Red Robin/When It Was June RARE DUOPHONE "UNBREAKABLE" 78
Labelled 'unbreakable' (see below), and listed for its rarity Side 1: the disc has developed a 'crazed' texture. It plays right through, but as you can imagine there is noise and loss. Lively syncopated rendering though! Side 2: Less desirable track, so it's just as well that the only fatal damage (3rd pic)  is at the start of this side.
In September 1926, the syndicate, now at a new address of 18, Savile Row, London W1. announced a new Duophone record. This was a revolutionary Unbreakable Record. Many collectors tend to treat them a bit of a joke because most of these records found nowadays are extremely brittle and fragile. However, it is my opinion that the materials used have perished with age and at the time they were issued, they were unbreakable, or as near as makes no difference. They were made of a core of bonded layered paper, coated with a thin layer of some sort of  rubberised plastic. 

I aim to grade conservatively, and NEVER use the term 'Mint'  unless I know that a record is New and Unplayed.
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