[78-L] record cabinet?

[Michael Biel]

On 8/28/2011 3:32 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> on you-know-where...
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120769683310&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_3489wt_1185
>
> Looks like an attractive piece of furniture and a sturdy place to keep
> your records circa 1901, until you open the drawers. Is this how they
> stored records? I was expecting vertical shelving.
Vertical shelving implies that the round records would be either in 
sleeves or albums, otherwise they would roll out.  With one exception I 
have not been able to find evidence of sleeves before 1906 -- not even 
any mention of how discs were sold, shipped, or stored in the trade 
press.  I had expected to find companies offering to sell sleeves to 
dealers, but there were only a few mentions of storage albums but not as 
early as 1901.  I would LOVE to get ANY info of the existence of disc 
sleeves prior to 1906 beyond the one Berliner sleeve in the new Sherman 
book.

One other thing about this record cabinet.  Although there is no way I 
could afford this, I asked the seller to give the dimensions.  
Especially considering some of the machines he mentioned, it might only 
hold 7-inch discs!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com