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Has anyone seen one of these cylinders before? It's a plastic material sheet with grooves in it. I'm guessing its relatively modern but found it rolled inside of an Edison cylinder inside of a sleeve among a set of cylinders I recently purchased off Facebook. I was wondering if anyone has an idea for how it could be played.

Thanks

Looks like a US Everlasting celluloid recording sleeve that is missing its cylinder core. A very common problem. Is these celluloid sleeves split due to swelling of the cylinder core and become separated.

Rich Gordon

Thanks! Looking that up, I believe you are correct.

rgordon939 wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 11:55 am Looks like a US Everlasting celluloid recording sleeve that is missing its cylinder core. A very common problem. Is these celluloid sleeves split due to swelling of the cylinder core and become separated.

Rich Gordon

Since the US Everlasting patents used a flat celluloid sheet that was 'soldered' to form a tube, rather than an extruded tube, that seam was always a weak spot. I have at least one Everlasting on which that happened.

- Bill