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I've frequently gotten Blue Amberols in gold-moulded boxes, but I've never gotten a 2-minute cylinder in a Blue Amberol box. Just an observation....



Rocky

Interesting observation,

Allow me to embellish it a bit:

I see that most 2 minute boxes outlive 2 minute wax cylinders and blue amberol cylinders outlive most BA boxes.

Edison probably realized he had a unending source of free 2 minute boxes out there to replace the BA toilet paper roll boxes he foisted on the cylinder buying public.

A BA box is pretty poor quality and offers little protection to the fragile was 2 min cylinder. Sliding a wax record even infrequently in and out of a BA box could easily damage it imho.

Rarely have I found a nice wax record in a BA box but I've found plenty of nice BA records in those cushy gold molded boxes.