Gramophone record
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 1933
Materials
Shellac
Measurements
3 mm (Depth); 333 mm (Diameter)
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 208655.2
Summary
rpm records, recording of Rudyard Kipling's speech to the Canadian Author's Society July 1933. Marked 'Matrix No 93 (94 on reverse), British Homophone Company Ltd, Test Record, Not for Sale, Mr Rudyard Kipling, Part ?, Claridge's Hotel, 12.7.33.' One of two 78.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976).
Marks and inscriptions
On record: Matrix No 93 (94 on reverse), British Homophone Company Ltd, Test Record, Not for Sale, Mr Rudyard Kipling, Part 2, Claridge's Hotel, 12.7.33.
Makers and roles
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), author