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Lambert Records

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

August 14, 1899: Thomas Lambert filed for a U.S. patent for molding cylinder records in celluloid. These records would be marketed in various colors (typically pink for early pressings; black for later), and were the first molded cylinder records offered in significant numbers in the U.S.

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Sometimes things of the past were made in a striking colour, one that you definitely wouldn't expect. This is an obvious case that often comes to my mind. Fluo pink is nothing special if you have lived through the '80s, but how might it have been received back then, I wonder? Did customers think that it was modern, or ahead of its time? Or just strikingly weird?

Another obvious example were (are) the Burmese Colour Needles, which came in that fuchsia pink that didn't match any other item in and around the gramophone. :rose:
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