Originally the company tried unsuccessfully to sell hosiery and phonograph records, an effort they quickly dropped.

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They took the form of phonograph records: 12-inch gold-plated copper disks, engraved with directions to build a device that could play them.

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Spillers claims to be the oldest record shop in the world, tracing its history back 105 years, when it originally sold phonograph players and shellac records.

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