I have a lot of Aeolian 116-note organ rolls that I've decided to
sell.  All have the army green cloth-covered boxes with orange labels
on the boxes; some rolls have the same label on the roll, some rolls
have an oilcloth type leader in cream and green.

All rolls start with 51xxx and some have a number rubber-stamped on
the underside of the leader by the tab, but is slightly different than
the roll number.  I also found a date of 1911 on the underside of the
leader of one roll; are they that early?  I did see patent dates of
between 1896-1913.  So far, what I've gone through look like they've
never been played.  I just found a couple today with a little edge
curling and a small fold over.  They originally came from an estate
of a rebuilder in the middle of nowhere in Iowa,

Jay Merrill - in finally not-roasting Indiana!