Out of Print Reels

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Each reel of a 3 reel set (packet) was produced on a separate machine at the factory. And no matter how hard the folks at View-Master tried, the runs for each machine never quite produced the same number of reels.

For the popular, common, often-run 3 reel sets, the excess from a machine was stored and used as part of the next run.  But for less popular, seldom-run or only once-run 3 reels sets, storage space being limited, it was best not to store the excesses of a run.

Early on, in the production of 3 reel sets, the mid 1950s, it was decided that instead of discarding these excess reels, they would be stamped or reprinted OUT OF STOCK and sold to dealers, either individually or in small quantity packages at discount.  The idea was brilliant, as it reduced waste and spoilage.  This continued through the mid 1970s.

Today, OUT OF PRINT Reels are desirable because they afford the collector an excellent opportunity to obtain an uncommon reel at a really reasonable price to fill in that missing blank in a 3 reel packet, or replace a damaged or worn specimen, or just make affordable a reel that under different circumstances would have been much more expensive.  But like most things good, there are usually only one of them at the 3Dstereo eMarket. Adding the reel to your basket reserves the reel exclusively for you.

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