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Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:22 am
by CDBPDX
Just brought home a bunch of cylinders from an auction and found this early Edison cylinder label without a portrait of Edison. also found one almost identical except it has the Edison portrait. Pretty cool!
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:19 am
by Django
I like the one without the portrait. Seeing Nipper on a logo was cute and nostalgic, but seeing Edison, not so much, (I have mixed feelings about Edison, so his portrait doesn't make his cylinders more desirable to me). Thanks for sharing.
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:23 am
by fran604g
Nice. How did you manage to scan them?
Fran
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:16 pm
by CDBPDX
fran604g wrote:Nice. How did you manage to scan them?
Fran
I rolled the cylinder case along the scanner bed as the scanner bar went across.
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:22 pm
by fran604g
CDBPDX wrote:fran604g wrote:Nice. How did you manage to scan them?
Fran
I rolled the cylinder case along the scanner bed as the scanner bar went across.
Thanks Cliff!
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:38 pm
by rgordon939
That is the first commercial Edison label from 1897. In 1898 they added the portrait of Edison to the label.
Rich Gordon
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:14 pm
by NEFaurora
Yep. That's the very first style alright...
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Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:48 pm
by edisonphonoworks
As far as I have been able to research the label without the photo is late 1898 at the earliest, but more like 1899 and the one with the photo 1900-1901, then it was a grayish blue red and black label in later 1901 that morphed into the first moulded label.
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:16 pm
by phonogfp
In Koenigsberg's Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912, he dates the first box label as 1899. I can neither confirm nor dispute that; just reporting.
George P.
Re: Early Edison Cylinder Case Label
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:30 pm
by edisonphonoworks
Yes 1899 sounds correct to me to. When did Columbia first put the colorful label on their records. I have a George w Johnson laughing cylinder, circa late 1897, early 1898 (it is short and dainty, less than 2.150" in diameter and shorter than an Edison, dainty spirals) It has no label or sign of one on the original box. Later Columbia brown wax have thicker spirals and around 2.170" in diameter, when the change happened I am not sure, but those who have a variety of Columbia brown wax lets check this out and see! But I think that would be another thread.