"Can't Break Em" : A Lambert Cylinder Ad

This elephant standing on a cylinder was used to illustrate the alleged indestructibility of the Lambert cellulloid cylinder. Note the slogan "Can't Break Em" etched in the illustration of the cylinder.

The Lambert Company of Chicago manufactured cylinders from only 1900-1905, when repeated lawsuits from Edison put Lambert out of business.  Thomas Lambert experimented with a variety of colors for the celluloid material, and the pink ones, made from 1902-1903, are the best loved today.  The solution used to dye the records was actually supposed to reduce surface noise!

We've collected 22 of these very rare Lambert titles for our Pink Lambert CD.