Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
TO SUCCESSFUL PHILADELPHIA DEALER IN EDISON PHONOGRAPHS EDISON, THOMAS A. Typed Letter Signed, "Thos A Edison," to General Manager of Girard Phonograph Peter R. Hawley, declining to attend a testimonial dinner held by dealers of Edison phonographs but sending regards and wishes of continued success. 1 page, 4to, "From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison" stationery; mounted to board trimmed to size, moderately toned overall. Orange, 27 June 1923

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". . . [B]usiness matters will not permit me to give myself the pleasure of participating in the festivities of the testimonial dinner to be given to you by . . . the Edison Dealers . . . .
"But I do want to . . . express my kind regards, and also my felicitations upon the success . . . in having won for yourself the respect and esteem of your Dealers . . . ."