Sold Date: March 31, 2018
Start Date: March 24, 2018
Final Price: $67.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 4
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Solidly bound album, front cover has light soiling/foxing on white parts.  Front cover is also slightly bowed.  Cardboard padding piece remains.  ONE OF THE TWO SHELLAC RECORDS, THE ONE WITH SIDES 1 AND 2, HAS A HAIRLINE CRACK.  I did not even notice it when taking the photos and shudder to think it may have occurred after I was done taking photographs, but I doubt it.  The crack does not extend through the dead matrix space to the label.  It may be possible to affect some kind of careful glue repair as the record is fully clean and smooth where the crack occurred.  The other record, with Sides 3 & 4, is in VERY GOOD CONDITION, A FEW LIGHT SCRATCHES ON CLEAN SHELLAC, I'LL GRADE VG++.
The original insert that came with this album is not present.  Both records will be carefully sandwiched in cardboard and secured with shrink and lots of padding for shipment.
From an online article on that speech:
"On this day in 1943, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Nationalist Chinese leader, delivered a speech to House members. At the time, Nationalists were seeking to repel Japanese invaders while embroiled in a civil war with the Communists.
Chiang is the only woman to address a “congressional reception.” In the early part of the 20th century, foreign leaders commonly addressed the House and Senate separately. The practice ended in the 1970s.
Chiang lauded the U.S. war effort at a time when the two nations shared a common enemy: Japan. Somewhat inaccurately, she told the lawmakers, “The 160 years of traditional friendship between our two great peoples, China and America, which has never been marred by misunderstandings, is unsurpassed in the annals of the world.”
She added: “We in China, like you, want a better world — not for ourselves alone but for all mankind. And we must have it.”