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Strange BA Cylinder
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:54 pm
by rgordon939
Was going through the the 700 cylinders I picked up last week and this one made me take a second look. Pretty ingenious I thought.
Rich Gordon
Re: Strange BA Cylinder
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:50 pm
by alang
So someone cut off the last strip of celluloid at the bottom and slid the rest up, so the top would not slit further? Is that a good solution?
Andreas
Re: Strange BA Cylinder
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:08 pm
by TinfoilPhono
Weird. It looks like someone put a Blue Amberol celluloid sleeve over an Indestructible core.
Re: Strange BA Cylinder
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:30 pm
by oldphonographsteve
It definitely does look like an amalgam of a Blue Amberol and an Indestructible. My question is, why would someone have done this?
-Steve
Re: Strange BA Cylinder
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:40 pm
by NEFaurora
"Weird. It looks like someone put a Blue Amberol celluloid sleeve over an Indestructible core."
Bingo.
That's what it is.
I wonder why I never thought of that?
Why they did it? Well, I can only "assume" that most of the plaster from the rear was completely gone..yet the all the celluloid was intact and undamaged...Kind of like the inside of a Lambert cylinder.
Whatever the case, It's neat to see!
Thanks for the pic!
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Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer