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Yeah, but at least it requires no Moistening.not the earliest version but a pretty early Scotch tape tin. It still has a bit of the mucky, melty, sticky, gooey, oozy cellulose tape inside!
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All this, of course, is a further lesson in why you find so many old books with noxious brown stains marking where the torn pages were mended with Scotch Cellulose Tape.
We used to have a convenience store over in the next town called "McDuck's," complete with a big cutout logo of Uncle Scrooge on the front of the building to advertise its low gas prices. It was there for almost 30 years, and the Disney people never caught wind of it. Hoot mon.
I've got three boxes of 7-inch tape reels (mostly Scotch #212), from the days when reel-to-reel tapes were my main collecting medium, which started in 1973, my freshman year in college. I haven't had a working deck in 20 years, and I'm sure these tapes would be in terrible, perhaps unplayable, condition. But I can't just throw them away... even though what I long considered their most essential, special material - dozens of hours of live Grateful Dead recordings - has now been rendered obsolete since nearly every show the Dead ever played is now available free to stream from archive.org!
Still, I can't throw them away!
I also heard some years ago about a poor chap who was writing a ‘cultural history of Australia’. He was constantly being told: ‘that’s going to be a short book’! Extremely unfair, as we all know. ...