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[Image]45 RPM Record Adapters, plastic and metal construction, 1950's - 1970's.

Top Row: Philco / Morse MFG. C, Fitchburg Mass. / No name ( Duotone type )/ Snap-It / No name

Second Row: No name ( Duotone type ) / Unknown German / No name ( Duotone type ) / No name ( Hutchison type ) / Fideltone

Third Row: Recotron / Webster / Airline / North American Philips (Norelco) / Audio Tool

Fourth Row : No name ( Duotone type ) / Automatic Plastics Company ( Canada ) / No name / No name ( Recotron type ) / No name

One of the things you run across as a geeky thrift store / swap meet record collector is millions of 7" records. During the height of my collecting in the late 90's I picked up dozens of cheap 45s ( and 7" 33s as well ) not always for the records themselves, but tor the great adapters stuck in the middle of these swell slabs of wax.
Above is a small cross section of some of these engineering marvels from my collection.

Check out this skookum article for an overview of the history of these adapters....
members.aol.com/clctrmania/cm-adapt.html Gorgeous aren't they? This post is a straight rip from an old MBV post. Which was a straight rip from glenmullaly's flikr stream.