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I have made around 11,000 "wax" phonogram blanks. Here is some things about color. Heating the compound as Aylsworth instructs usually results in a cream to light brown color, mostly a tan. First off is a link to a customer who has used my blanks in a unique way, and then the inventor of Edison Phonograph wax tells us about color.



This is what he says about color.One customer of mine that over the years has used over 300 of my blanks, for
saving voices of those who are the last to speak certain dialets, and to tell
stories, and turn the Phonograph into characters. This is a vidio explaining his
various projects, Pablo Helguera. There were very little blanks of regular white
or brown, most were pink, green blue red ect.
http://www.smac.us/2010/04/25/pablo-helguera/


This is something about brown wax blanks you might find interesting, that Jonas
Aylsworth said.


Aylsworth looking at blanks in a court case from page 30 and 31. "Yes, I can
identify these as being made prior to 1893, because of the manor of making the
blanks, as seen in 4, 5, and 6 especially, must be very old because when cut
into it is seen that there is a change of color, the outside being a salmon
color and the small portion of the interior, or middle is the original color of
the cylinder. This change in color, I am familiar with and know the cause to be
the gradual absorption of oxygen, which causes the stearate of iron which the
record contains as an impurity derived from the iron kettles, to change to the
ferric or higher oxidation stage, which produces a brownish or salmon color. It
would take years for the action to penetrate the depth which it has in these two
records. I observe that since the records were cut to take samples for analysis
early in January up to this time, there has been no perceptible change in the
lighter interior portion; the age of a composition of this kind could be fairly
accurately determined by the depth of discoloration. These records are the same
composition and were manufactured previous to 1893 by the Edison Manufacturing
Company and Edison Phonograph Works. And which were molded into records and
blanks and sold commercially

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