Hello Shawn,
I believe you are talking about the early ones made in 1901 in the 7000 range.
I have a NOS one it its original 1901 box, the record and the box both look
new, unfortunately the record is cracked. From what I have read Edison began
to mold records in 1901 and stocked up for the Feb 1902 release.
I was fortunate to get about 40 record boxes from 1899 to 1902.
When did the composition of these early ones change? They also seem to be
thinner, lighter and more fragile.
"While stockpiling of black wax cylinders continued, monthly reseases of brown
wax cylinders also continued"
Page 46 of the The Concert Book which I highly recommend reading.
Steve
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> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:52:34 -0500
> Subject: [Phono-L] flat end gold molded
>
> Kind of curious how many early , flat end Edison molded records are around.
> It seems many of these still have brown wax catalog numbers. I only have two.
> The composition for these is very similar to brown wax, except for caranauba
> and lampblack, and more aluminum. COLUMBIA black wax is nothing more than
> borwn wax with a higher comcentration of aluminum and lampblack.
>
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