How common are cylinder box errors?

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How common are cylinder box errors?

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I was reorganizing some of my cylinder records tonight and came across a box that I never noticed before.

How common are cylinder box mistakes?

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It's a rare inverted BA! Put it on eBay, quick! :lol:

I don't know - now if it were a stamp, the collectors would be all over it....

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Somebody had to have gone through a lot of effort to put the lid on the bottom. Either that, or it was 4:59 on a Friday afternoon. :)

That one is a keeper.
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Scott,

Of the thousands of cylinder boxes I have inspected, I have seen new style labels put over older style labels on Gold Molded cylinder boxes and labels put on crooked but I have never seen an upside down label.

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Hi Scott;

I also have an Edison cylinder box with the label upside down, however, mine is a blue opera box. I'll take a photo of it. They are neat artifacts.

Scott

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Hey Scott - please post pictures of your box!

Thanks - the other Scott

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Scott,

Attached are the pics of the upside down label.

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Upside down Edison cylinder carton labels must be rare, because after collecting for 45 years, I've never seen any. The most record-related errors that I have seen are wrong paper labels on Pathé vertical-cut disks.

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VintageTechnologies wrote:Upside down Edison cylinder carton labels must be rare, because after collecting for 45 years, I've never seen any. The most record-related errors that I have seen are wrong paper labels on Pathé vertical-cut disks.
And apparently only collectors named Scott own them!

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MTPhono wrote:
VintageTechnologies wrote:Upside down Edison cylinder carton labels must be rare, because after collecting for 45 years, I've never seen any. The most record-related errors that I have seen are wrong paper labels on Pathé vertical-cut disks.
And apparently only collectors named Scott own them!
damn, what do Alex's get then? haha :lol:

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