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Owner Surprised By Value of 1903 Edison Phonograph (2005)

All valuations were correct at the time of broadcast. Bought in 1903 and passed down through generations, this Edison Standard Phonograph has been bringing music into the same family since 1921.

Still in working order more than a century later, it offers a remarkable glimpse into the earliest days of recorded sound. But what is a piece of living audio history like this really worth?


Filmed in Ipswich, Suffolk in 2005.

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