Here's a beautiful, very uncommon Charlus & Marechal cylinder record box with an original Charlus & Marechal brown wax cylinder. Like virtually all surviving Charlus & Marechal cylinders, this one has a moldy surface and plays with plenty of noise and very little music, but it's an authentic C&M cylinder, with no cracks, and it has the trademarked CM engraved on the rim, as you can see in the last photo.
Side panels and base are in good shape, with no damage, and the lid fits snugly onto the box.
A nice addition to any advanced collection of early brown wax recordings.
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