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Personal Inscriptions by Music Roll Artists
By Russell Kriegel

Hello all!  In a large lot of Ampico rolls I recently acquired,
I discovered a roll that bore across its leader a handwritten
message of a surprisingly personal nature signed by the artist,
Edgar Fairchild, to one of his female fans.  I was curious to
know if other roll collectors have made similar discoveries.

Were roll signings once a commonplace event as are book signings
today?  Of many hundreds of rolls in our collection, this is the
only one I know to have an actual artist inscription.

Russell Kriegel


(Message sent Mon 24 Jan 2005, 07:59:36 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Artists, Inscriptions, Music, Personal, Roll

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