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Hi Tony,

It is just as I explained. U-S Everlasting were overtaken by Albany Indestructible and so they supplied the cylinder records for Lakeside from that point onwards. Lakeside boxes with Indestructible cylinders and lid labels are not especially hard to find. Just check a well known auction website and you'll surely find one or more. At the moment there are at least five different ones in auction, all exactly like my example of this ...

Thanks Helmut!!

Excellent examples!!

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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

It is interesting. I am aware that U.S. Everlasting is very different, than the later take over with the Albany Indestructible records, They had a composition material for the inside and the record was a welded sheet of celluloid. I have also seen rare examples of brown celluloid cylinders, made like the U.S. Everlasting cylinders, however I think they were tests of the process, and one such record was Sousa March "Jack Tar" by Hagar's orchestra. I would love to know more about the recording equipment they used. Most likely they all used trailing recorders with Edison Triumphs, most likely. I sometimes wonder if my recorder is really an Edison recorder or some other company like Albany, or U.S. but I will never know it is so similar to the Edison studio recorders at the site. I have the Henry Seymour book and it shows a detail of the molding equipment used to make indestructible records, it seems they were made with molds in a circle.