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A 120-year-old wax-covered cylinder containing the earliest known recording of a black US vocal group has been sold at auction.
Discovered in a private collection in Portland, Maine, the 1893 recording of ‘Mama’s Black Baby Boy’ by the New York-based Unique Quartet was one of only two known copies and sold for $1,100 (€810). The other is in the Library of Congress.
