The white coloring was white lead and boiled linseed oil. It turns brown
with advanced age and eventually falls out.
There are several robins egg blue shade amberols and several purple
ones, like I said before, Edison cylinder color quality control was not
teh best.
On 12/03/2012 11:00 PM, Bob Maffit wrote:
Phono List:
A short while ago a thread involving "royal Purple" cylinders had some
life. some anomalies were discussed / present, like "blue cylinders" in the
middle of the Royal Purple span of numbers or a "maroon colored" cylinder
etc.
While scanning a lot of cylinders offered for sale in a run of the mill
antique shop, my wife grabbed a Purple cylinder from the group thinking it
was a "Royal Purple" cylinder. Upon closer examination, it is not a "29XX"
numbered cylinder. This one is certainly the Royal Purple color however,
the print is not in gold.
The cylinder is:
3790 "everyone wants a key to my cellar" by Al Bernard
The lettering isn't white or gold, it is the same color of the celluloid )
purple). Maybe the color has rubbed or washed out but, it looks like it
wasn't ever colored.
Any thoughts or comments?
later
Bob
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