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In the spirit of our recent duster thread, I thought it might be nice to share some of the rare or unusual needle tins many of us would have in our collections.
I'll start off with 3 I recently picked up.
The first is an early Edison Bell "Winner" tin, followed by a French HMV tin, and an Arcadia needle dispenser, with a rotating lid & slot for the needles to be tipped out from.

Okay. It's raining (again) and I can't go out and play so here are a few tins..they were all bought in Canada originally, I can be 99.9% sure. Britain's Best were sold by Eaton's Department Store. The Columbia is the prettiest.

Jim

This is the only one I have that is not common.




Here is the only cardboard one I have too.


The underside of the box states that these are good for ten plays. Really?

James.

Still trying to catch up with the old posts as I am only about a week old on this forum. So far, you have all been very helpful and I thank you all for that. I picked up my first two needle tins today at a small antique shop. They were inside a VE-4-40X that was grossly over priced, so I made an offer for the two tins inside. We settled for $5.00 for the both of them. They are full, (aside from about 3 needles missing) and are the Tung-Stone needles in the Victor tins. Pretty neat as I have never seen them before. From what I understand, they play more than just once per record.

I was especially interested in the one that says "Samples" instead of the actual loudness. I have found in research that most say "full tone", "loud", extra loud" or soft. But I haven't come across a "sample" tin yet. So I thought it was a good deal. Cant get enough of this hobby/lifestyle!

SonnyPhono,

Two tins of Tungs-Tones for a fin is a great deal! Congratulations!

John M