Greetings!
On most commercial Edison black wax two and four minute and Blue
Amberol recordings you'll see something like this:
PATD . . 14
The two dots after the PATD is the take number and the Arabic number
is the mold number used. In the above example it is take 2 and the
recording comes from the 14th mold. As molds wore out they created a
new one and it was inscribed with the next number in the series.
Best to all,
Dan
On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:32 AM, D P Ingram wrote:
> All:
>
> May I just check an understanding or be corrected a misunderstanding.
>
> On many cylinders one has a small number often after the cylinder
> number in about 1/3 the font size, ie.2180 4. Sometimes it can
> appear before the cylinder number and after the Edison trademark.
> Is this a take number or is this a production version number (i.e.
> 1 is the first "cut" and maybe 4 might be the last version made?
>
> Many thanks, Darren
>
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