I have a few Victrola records myself. I have one for the opera "Faust", recorded in 1907.

Wow. Unfortunatley this record is not dated so I cant tell but I done a little research into it and found it's from 1935 so its about 70 years old. One year younger than my Grandmother.

My mom was an antique trader in the 90s, so that how we got a set of them with an awesome "Victrola Talking Machine" with the huge trumpet and everything. I might upload a video of it in use one of these days.

Would love to see that. I play this one on a 'Steepletone record changer modern replica' its a new turntable that can play Vinyl and Shellac with one needle!

Its a record from 1935 :D

'Introduction and Allegro for Strings' a song from 1905 (7 years before titanic)

This actual record is from 1935 making it roughly 70 years old.

This was one of the later 78's they started to be made in the early 1900's

I will post a video soon so you can hear what it sounds like.

Here's what it sounds like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O70RN8y-v0s

Meep! o.o Oldest records I have are from the 80s ^^;
Though This Last Night In Sodom by Soft Cell will always be my favourite album of all time so I shouldn't complain. X3

The oldest Vinyl one I have is from 1972, it's Boney M-Take the heat off me.

1976

I have quite a few 78 rpm records too. The oldest I have have only one face recorded, the other is a fancy "printing" of the company's logo all over the surface. I heard those records were common before WWI and still manufactured un tp the mid 20's...
Sadly this record got a huge bump, so I can't listen it.

Recods from the 30's are quite common (at least where I live) because they simply won't sell much, so you can alway find them for cheap.

I have 3 or 4 amazing records of two comedians from the 40's, totally forgotten today. And other things that are amazing to listen but nobody cares.

I even have a complete set of classical music on large (30cm) records, that come in a heavy cardboard book to store them together.

The guy I brought this from has 5000 78's in his store and lots of old photographs, tape decks and turntables. Not to mention a few hundred LP's and 45's

the kind of place that make me crazy ^^

Sadly even the used shop places and antiques sellers doesn't have records, I found mines on garage sales only ^^

Yeah, I don't normally buy 78's but I might start now since they are SO CHEAP!! I got both of these for £2 (but one was damaged )

Same here, excluding antique sellers in garage sales, you can buy one for 1€, and sometime cheaper if you take a bunch of them.
I really like having the paper sleeves even in bad shape, it's very fancy ^^.
I could take a picture of them when I could.

Hey, im not making you but it would be cool to see.

Here they are...

The ones I have with their paper sleeve :
http://izipik.com/images/201301/05/.....v-dsc02315.jpg

I tried to put different (but significant) labels. I have more records with paper sleeve, but they are either bland ones (like the ones on the bottom) or they are of brand that already are on the pic.
You can notice there is two "Pathé" sleeves, but the design on the bottom one was so nice I felt the need to include it.
Also I know there is some mix-up with the sleeves, but I got the records like that, and I don't feel like swapping all of them. Especially since I have a Perfectaphone sleeve but no Perfectaphone record :p

The most amazing thing I saw on a sleeve is a mention stating "if the quality of your record start to lower due to useage, make big scratches over the disk to render it unuesable, then bring it back to the place where you bough it. You will receive a free replacement record."

And my oldest one:

http://izipik.com/images/201301/05/.....u-dsc02312.jpg
http://izipik.com/images/201301/05/.....e-dsc02313.jpg

So nice. This one is certainly more than 90 years old; circa 1920 is the latest date you can give it.
And sorry for the burned colors, but my flash is on the lowest settings

I didn't find my "booklet" records, I think I put them with my LP or my Laserdiscs ^^

Heh, wow, you certainly have a lot of old 78's!! As for the flash problem just turn it off and increase the ISO settings.

My room is too dark for the camera :p More ISO would only make my picture noisy. My camera works really bad in bad light conditions.

Some more, I found the "booklet" thingie :

http://izipik.com/images/201301/05/.....4-dsc02319.jpg
http://izipik.com/images/201301/05/.....a-dsc02321.jpg

Also, this one :
http://izipik.com/images/201301/05/.....3-dsc02322.jpg

Seems new? it is!
It's a microgroove 78rpm that was recorded around 2009.

I still can't found a small 78 rpm I found, it's the size of a 45rpm ^^ but the center is smaller to fit all the music in.

Yes I saw both a booklet and a mini 78 in the store too.

Pardon my big-headed-ness but the oldest record in my collection dates from circa 1920.

I'm pretty sure the shop I got this from has records older than that. I'm just about to post a video of this, i'll let you know when it's up.

Ok, I just uploaded the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O70RN8y-v0s

Haha, wow Anyone notice that the URL ends in 78 :O