If you start hearing and collecting gramophone records, you need also a gramophone and needles. And the first needles you buy on a flea market are in a needle tin. You like this tin and start buying the 2nd and the 3rd ..... Now you are - a very small - collector. Then you find a needle tin with a trade mark and a company, which doesn´t fit to another combination you have already. No problem, you think - I take a catalog - but there isn´t one. Also nothing on the web.

Because of this I have started here, to assort every needle tin, which I can get optically, after Company and/or trade marks/logos. Currently there are about 5900 different needle tins assorted to about 2270 Companies/trade marks/logos. (Mar 2009)

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