As well as replacing labels, I've been doing a lot of 65-note box
repairs, and it's almost always the top that is in bad shape.  It
seems that the wooden inserts in the bottom not only support the roll
and keep it off the floor of the box, but they also give the box good
protection from physical abuse.

But why are the tops, especially of U.S. Aeolian rolls with the maroon
colored cover paper, so often split along the seams?  I think it is
because they were made too tight in the first place.  It's very galling
to spend maybe an hour carefully repairing a top to find that you can't
push it onto the bottom without re-splitting it.  In some cases I've
given up and made a new lid -- it's quicker.

88-note Hupfeld roll boxes seem to suffer from this fault, too.

John Phillips in Hobart, Tasmania