Brown wax records overseas are just as bad if they go in the unheated aircraft
cargo pit.
From: [email protected]
Subject: [Phono-L] Shipping Blue Amberols from cold locations...
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:05:28 +0000
This is a new one on me. I have seen many Blue Amberol Records with
longitudinal splits and thought it was just age shrinking the celluloid over
the plaster core. I won an eBay auction with 10 Blue Amberols in good shape.
When they arrived, two were cleanly split over the perfectly intact plaster
core. Sitting out here in California with people driving their convertibles
with tops down and me in short sleeves I had given no thought to getting
records from Wisconsin in February. If I win more from the same seller I have
requested that he print "DO NOT FREEZE" on the package.
Am I the only one this has happened to? Will the printing of 'do not freeze'
help the USPS from repeating the problem. As a phonograph collector I must
admit to my ignorance on temperatures affecting records.
May all your finds be rare ones,
Al Sefl
