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Yes; the servant carrying a wax cylinder for the gramophone device was a huge miss. Yeah, I don't get that one. What was the advance here supposed to be? I w
by kenjackson 16y ago
Yes; the servant carrying a wax cylinder for the gramophone device was a huge miss.
Yeah, I don't get that one. What was the advance here supposed to be? I would have imagined that's what rich people did in 1910.
- joeyo 16y agoMy interpretation is that the wax cylinder is being used as a calling card to announce a visitor. If so, it's a miss for at least two reasons: 1. Why would you choose to listen to a calling card rather than read it and 2. social customs changed, eliminating the custom of leaving calling cards.