I read with interest Jim Jelinek's posting about sending player rolls
to Texas for a Mexican customer who didn't trust the Mexican mails.
Talk about carrying coals to Newcastle ... uh, rolls to Mexico!

Many years back, I attempted to set up a one-stop service which would
sell to collectors rolls made anywhere in the world for player and
reproducing pianos, and nickelodeons.  In the end, I was unable to get
the full cooperation of the roll makers.  Though the failure was not
my fault, the venture cost me a lot of trouble, money and reputation,
as I was blamed when certain perforators failed to deliver on promises
made.

In the process, I made contact with roll producers across the USA,
in the United Kingdom, Australia, and guess where else...

Jim's bit reminded me that one of my sources was a perforator in Mexico
who made rolls with the clever name "Rollos Mexico".  They were punched
on wax paper exactly like that used back then by bread bakeries to wrap
their loaves!  Figuring this didn't take a lot of detective work.  The
paper wasn't "like" bread wrapper; it _was_ the paper used on bread,
complete with colorful printing, trademarks, etc.

I have no idea if that firm still exists.  I doubt it.  Perhaps one
of the reasons for the difficulty in getting those rolls was the very
postal system of which we have been reading.

Lee Munsick
nee New Jersey, one of the music roll producing capitals
now Virginia, which has a lot of other American history

 [ Ed Gaida tells about meeting Senor Fernando Diaz Lodoza of Rollos
 [ Mexico in 1959 (980319 MMDigest).  I have box labels designed in
 [ 1926 that say "Rollo Mexico"; I don't know when the name changed.
 [ -- Robbie