☘ THE RATTLIN' BOG ☘
FAN SHRINE

BogLord mentioned in a recent blog post finding a reference to a 1847 gramophone recording of someone singing the Rattlin' Bog that was discovered in a car boot sale. An 1847 GRAMOPHONE RECORDING. That shouldn't be possible. Gramophones weren't widely available until the 1890s.

Has anyone else seen this recording? Is it real? How is this possible?

From a historical and technological standpoint, this is anachronistic. Impossible, really. Unless the date is wrong, or the artifact is something else entirely. The mathematics of object dating can be tricky. Sometimes what we think we know about timelines... isn't.