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buy or trade,” he said, explaining he never trades his real collectibles but trades copies of them. “I have one of every recording ever made by A1 Jolson,” Mr. Pierson said, adding he also has duplicates and that’s what he trades for other recordings.
Besides the collector of the music or recording itself, Mr. Pierson said many people look for the “wallhanging disc.”
Until the Depression, record companies often produced elaborate discs with wonderfully romantic or comic designs covering the disc.
Amid the 20,000 plus platters, Mr. Pierson can quickly lay his hands on a “wall hanging.”
If the exact number of recordings was ever reached for Pierson’s extensive library, it would increase quickly, for it probably would not have included the one Mr. Pierson bought just last week.
“It was a 1933 song by Baby Rose Marie,” he said with pride, adding the disc
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