Rare cylinder record boxes for sale (update 2026)

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Hello everyone,

 

Like last year, I am again offering a number of more or less rare cylinder record boxes (or interesting cylinder records) from different countries. See photos below for what is available. The numbers on the photos match the numbers in the list/description below.

 

I haven’t added prices, as everyone who is seriously interested in cylinder boxes has a rough idea what they will sell for. My prices will be fair. And I will give a discount, if someone buys quite a few boxes. Just let me know (by PM here or through FB Messenger - https://www.facebook.com/helmut.janisch.5) what you are interested in, and then I tell you how much I’d like to have … and then we’ll see if we can agree on a deal. First come first serve, though I will try to please everyone.

 

If you are seriously interested in buying one or more boxes and need to see more photos from all around of the box or of the record (where included), I will take photos and send them to you. For now, I think that the photos of just the front and top gives a good idea of what to expect.

 

Shipping is from Germany and I will do my best to find the best possible shipping rate for you. And of course a bomb proof packaging is also included. Satisfction guaranteed, as they say.

 

Greetings,

Helmut

 

List of my offers:

 

1. American Lambert Indestructible Record box w. pink cylinder

Nice example, all matching

- No 1017 Melody In F, Violin, very good condition

 

2. American Lambert Ebony Indestructible Record

Box for black Lambert Indestructible cylinder with great image (elephant on cylinder) on one side

- empty box in nice condition with correct caps

 

3. International Phonographic Language Schools (Lambert)

Box with correct Lambert languge record „German No. 18“

- nice condition with correct caps

 

4. British Lambert Record

One of three similar label variations for British Lambert celluloid cylinders (one is white and two are red background)

- all genuine and in nice condition; with very good condition British Lambert cylinder No 5182, Chinese Troubador by Elton

 

5. British Edison Bell Ebony Indestructible Record

This is the later label variation for Edison Bell Indestructibles

- box is quite darkend, but still not too bad in my opinion; with correct Indestructible record No 561, Coronation Bells by band

 

6. British Excelsior Record

Box for a black wax cylinder of the Excelsior Record brand, has a fitting but wrong manufacturer’s cap on top

- with correct black wax cylinder, There’s A Dark Man Coming With A Bundle by band, quite mouldy condition

 

7. British London Popular Record

Box for a black wax cylinder of the London Popular Record brand

- with correct black wax cylinder No 198, If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon, quite mouldy condition

 

8. British Electric Record

Box for a black wax cylinder of the Electric Record brand, has fitting but wrong brand’s cap on top (Edison Bell instead Electric)

- empty box

 

9. British International Indestructible Record

- metal lid is unfortunately missing, comes with correct record No 4251, Marriage Bells - it has a crack (approx 2cm length) that is audible but still not too bad, overall sound is vg-, I’d say

 

10. British Rees’ Language Record/Sterling Linguaphone

Box for a black wax language cylinder made by Sterling

- with correct matching black wax cylinder in very good condition - tiny mould spots on one side

 

11. French Cylindre Phrynis

Box for Phrynis black wax cylinder

- with correct brand’s cylinder but wrong title, No 10348, La Traviataby M. Rigaux, in very good condition

 

12. French Charlus & Marechal

Square box with floral ornaments for Charlus & Marechal brown wax cylinder, it is one of at least two different floral ornaments used

- with correct cylinder (announced Charlus & Marechal and logo on record’s rim), can’t tell if the title is matching, the condition is very good

 

13. German Echo Goldguss Walze

Very nice example of this rare German brand

- very nice condition box with corect matching record No 9005, O Du Fröhliche in very good condition

 

14. Phonographen-Walzenfabrik Colonia

Very nice example of this rare German brand

- the box is in very nice condition all around but the record is broken into pieces

 

15. German Apollo Record

Rare box for Apollo Record brown wax cylinder, the label is one of at least five similar looking labels for Apollo

- with correct matching cylinder in decent condition, quite some mouldy areas

 

16. German Gold-Guss-Walze

Nice example of the rare German brand Gold-Guss-Walze

- correct brand’s cylinder, but title is not No 4087 (as the lid says) but No 4029, Armee Marsch No 7, in decent condition, slightly mouldy

 

17. German Schellhorn Stentor-Guss-Record

Very nice example of the rare German Schellhorn brand, one of two different Schellhorn labels of the same brand; this has the addition „Stentor“ in the brand name

- with correct matching cylinder No 1320, Norma Overture, in very good condition, lid label has some stains but nothing too ugly

 

18. German Electra Goldguss-Walze (label in blue and gold)

Nice example of one of the „bigger“ German brands

- with correct matching cylinder, but with a big crack and one side heavily moulded

 

19. German Elektra Goldguss-Walze (label in black/red/gold)

Nice example of one of the „bigger“ German brands

- with correct matching cylinder, but quite mouldy

 

20. German 1a Lipsia Hartguss Record box

Nice typical plain green box for 1a Lipsia black wax cylinders

- with probably correct matching cylinder (can’t identify the march, sorry) in quite good condition

 

21. German Excelsior Hartguss Record

Nice typical box for Excelsior black wax cylinders, strangely with the text „Moulded Record“ on front written in English

- with correct matching cylinder box No 6040, O Du Fröhliche, in rather decent condition

 

22. German Excelsior Hartguss Record

Nice typical box for Excelsior black wax cylinders, strangely with the text „Moulded Record“ on front written in English

- with maybe correct cylinder, it is broken/unplayable, so I can’t check

 

23. German Gloria Goldgusswalze

Decent example for one of Germany’s bigger brands with very nice graphics all around

- empty box in decent condition with lid label missing and slightly fade colour of the lid, some stains but overall not too bad

 

24. German Edison cylinder blank „Geschliffene Edison Blankwalzen“

There was no particular labeled box for Edison cylinder blanks in Europe. They used the regular boxes (no matter if they were British, French or German) with just a different lid label on top, saying that this contains a blank. This is one of two different variations of that lid label in German.

- with correct blank cylinder, unfortunately with a large crack

 

25. French Cylindres Pathé

Box for Pathé brown wax cylinder, the box is the typical make that mostly Pathé used, but the lid is very special, as the brand name is embossed to it (impossible to spot on the photo, and even hard to see in real)

- with maybe correct brown wax cylinder (French introduction and singing) in quite good condition with some mould spots

 

26. American Columbia with Kramer’s Music House dealer label

Very nice complete and matching example of a 2 minute black wax release by Columbia with record slip

- box, caps, labels, record slip and record are all in very good condition and the label by the Allentown dealer is also very nice with great handwriting of the title; they rarely are that nice and complete

 

27. Edison No 8136, Nearer, My God, To Thee by Edison Concert Band

Not interesting for the box but for the music on the record. It is said that it was the last tune that the band played on the sinking Titanic.

- early black wax cylinder in extremely good condition

 

28. Columbia No 3863, Banjo Solo - Selection from A Runnaway Girl by Vess L. Ossman

Not interesting for the box but for the record, comes with original record slip

- ca. 1900-1901 brown wax cylinder in extremely good condition, plays at 140 rpm