Gold Moulded Records was a sub-label of Edison Blue Amberol Records, which featured more durable celluloid cylinders with four minutes playing time.
A word about cylinder markings: The earliest Gold Moulded cylinders had rounded ends that lacked identifying markings, other than a faint handwritten catalog number and a small facsimile of Edison's signature before the groove. In August 1904, beveled-edged cylinders were introduced with the title, catalog number and performance type moulded into the rim. For all cylinders up to catalog # 8748 that contain recordings made prior to early 1904, first pressings are on unmarked flat-end cylinders. Labeled beveled-edged cylinders of these releases are repressings. This gets complicated though, because Edison re-made many early titles after August 1904 and issued these on cylinders with the same catalog numbers as earlier versions. Therefore, it is possible to have records numbered lower than # 8748 that have end labels but are not repressings because they contain a remade version of the recording.
Alternate (foreign) names:
- Cylindres Edison Moulés Sur Or (in and Quebec)
- Edison Goldguss Walze (in and Austro-Hungary)
- Edison Records in Chinese (in China)
