I never thought this was such an unusual packaging method.  I can, off the top of my head think of a few boxes with single LPs - Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury" on London, (a couple of different versions), Stokowski's "Carmina Burana" and "The Orchestra" on Capitol, "King of Kings" and "Ben Hur" on MGM, "Listening in Depth" on Columbia, and I think there were some Broadway musicals on Columbia which came out in that packaging but I may be thinking of things like "Kismet", "Candide" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" which were single CDs issued in dual CD jewel boxes.  There was also the "Philharmonic Library of Great Music" series which came out in the '50s, (in Canada at least, I don't know if they were issued in the US).

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>  Telefunkens, also part of the Decca group, were packaged this way too in the 1950s, at least in the USA. Both 12" and 10" LPs in boxes. I have checked a number of them and find no independent text insert. But then it wasn't needed because the backs of the LP jackets have program notes.
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>  A couple of my Telefunkens have the enclosed LP sleeves in very heavy clear plastic sleeves.
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>All I've seen are imports in more fragile, thinner covers than we used in
>the U.S. but were standard abroad.  Most are from the London import group-
>L'Oiseau-Lyre, Ducretet-Thompson, etc.  These were specialty items, imported
>in smaller numbers and tended to get lost on the shelves.  The box increased
>visibility and provided a printed spine which the records otherwise lacked
>but which U.S. records had by the time these were brought in, c. 1957?
>Offhand, I can't think of any that were in stereo in these boxes.
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>Steve Smolian
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>On 4/22/2013 4:23 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>> Anyone recognise this type of package -  assuming there was NOT a booklet,
>> why the additional box ????
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>I've seen a few of them. I think the answer is prestige.
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