Tube lid
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic and cardboard
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1150877.25
Summary
Phonograph cylinder tube lid. One of nine lids for Onphonograph record cylinder tubes, part of a collection. The collection comprises - a cardboard box containing sixteen phonograph record cylinders in cardboard tubes (all but one with lids missing); Over the Waves Waltz, The Whistling Coon, Trio from Faust, Darktown Dandies, Semiramide Overture, A Little Suit of Blue, Pinafore Airs, Little Grey Home in the West, Awakening of Spring, Quinteto Instrumentale, Pilgrim of Love, Our Miss Gibbs, He'd Have to Get Under and The Swan (Violin); two unidentifiable and broken. Also eight empty phonograph cardboard tubes, numbers 143, 144, 21, 577, 888, 907, 10192 and 12299. Also in the box are nine lids marked - We All walked into the Shop and nos 45, 297, 662, 1005, 12118, 12237, 60.465 and 476. There is also a cylinder with wooden rings.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.