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"Кассета № 15" Type-1 Reel-to-Reel Tape Spool in Box
Object/Artifact
Boxed open-reel ("кассета"/spool) for magnetic tape, with tape wound on the reel. The square paperboard carton is printed front and back. The front (Image 1) carries the product name, specifications, and two overlapping stylized three-spoke reel silhouettes in orange and pink. The back (Image 2) is a salmon-orange paper field printed with two columns of blank ruled lines (a contents/index log, unfilled), a thumb-notch cut at the top edge for removing the reel, and a pencil inscription at upper left reading "Dr. Asencio." Inside is a reel of dark oxide tape on a smoky-clear plastic three-spoke hub with a translucent pink center disc (Image 3), matching the pink reel printed on the box. The hub is molded with a producer legend, a length/time estimation scale, and a circular "1" emblem. Reel diameter approximately 13 cm (tentative; no scale in frame), consistent with the stated 250 m capacity. The tape is recorded/used (titled by hand on the box). The reel and box are a matched Music-Fund product; the magnetic tape wound on it is of unidentified make (see Made/Created and Research Notes).
2025.1.317
The Music Fund of the USSR (Музыкальный фонд СССР, "Музфонд"), founded in 1939 under the Union of Composers, ran production combines in Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, and Kiev that manufactured, among other goods, standardized tape reels and boxes. This carton is a product of its Leningrad combine.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
Production Combine of the Leningrad Branch of the Music Fund of the USSR
Leningrad
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
Date: circa 1968–1980; firmly post-1967 (the box cites ГОСТ 13275-67, the standard adopted in 1967). Narrower dating tentative. Place: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (address given as prospekt Gaza 44, postal index 198020).
Inscription
box, front
Russian
TAPE N15 FOR REEL-TO-REEL 1-(GOST) 13275-67 Variety Price 0-65k. Capacity 250 m Checkpoint DO MUZFOND USSR Leningrad 198020, pr. Gaza, 44
Ink
Brands is Russian for "TAPE".
Note
box, back
Dr. Asencio
Spanish
Dr. Asencio
Pencil
Box front, printed (Russian; English in brackets): "КАССЕТА № 15" [Reel/Spool No. 15]; "ДЛЯ МАГНИТОФОННОЙ ЛЕНТЫ" [for magnetic-recorder tape]; "Тип I · ГОСТ 13275-67 · Сорт I · Цена 0-65 к. · Емкость 250 м" [Type 1 · GOST 13275-67 · Grade 1 · Price 65 kopecks · Capacity 250 m]; "КПП ЛО МУЗФОНДА СССР · Ленинград, 198020, пр. Газа, 44." Box back: graphite pencil inscription "Dr. Asencio" (terminal letters slightly ambiguous; alternate reading "Asensio" — tentative); printed ruled index lines (blank). Reel, molded into the clear hub: a producer legend reading approximately "ЛО / МУЗФ[ОНДА]" (tentative); a length/time estimation scale of paired numeric columns (e.g., 22/44 … 12/24 … 6/12); a circular emblem enclosing the numeral "1" (corresponding to the Type-1 / Grade-1 designation).
15.5 cm
15.5 cm
1 cm
(1) printed paperboard carton (front label + salmon back log-label); (2) tape reel (smoky-clear plastic three-spoke hub with translucent pink center disc); (3) wound magnetic recording tape. Together these constitute the single object.
Cardboard
Plastic
Paperboard and printed paper (carton and labels); transparent molded plastic reel — polystyrene (tentative) — with translucent pink hub disc; magnetic tape (oxide-coated flexible base, PVC or polyester/"lavsan," tentative); graphite (pencil inscription).
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
Leningrad
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
The Music Fund of the USSR was created in Moscow under the Union of Composers in 1939 and operated production combines in Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, and Kiev; it maintained production enterprises and sheet-music shops (ru.Wikipedia; Belcanto). The cited standard is confirmed: a 1978 Soviet patent references the standard reel for magnetic tape, type 1, GOST 13275-67, fixing a post-1967 production date for the box. ("Кассета" here denotes the reel/spool unit, not a Compact Cassette.)