Edison was prevented from selling celluloid cylinders by Lambert's patents, which were acquired by the Indestructible Phonograph Record Co. when Lambert went bankrupt in 1906. He was finally able to buy Lambert's British patents in 1912 and began manufacturing celluloid cylinders.

Blue Amberols were dyed with a blue aniline dye that hardened the celluloid and reduced surface noise. Like Edison's black wax Amberols, they held 4 minutes of sound. They had a plaster core, which addressed the shrinkage problem with celluloid cylinders. Blue Amberols were recorded to play at the standard 160 rpm This particular cylinder dates to 1912, based on the flat end with the title (Bruderhofer 2026).

Blue Amberols were Edison's last cylinder record. When they first came out in 1912, their principal competition was disk records from Columbia and Victor, both of which had already abandoned cylinders. In 1915 Edison acknowledged the inevitable and began to manufacture disk records, called Diamond Disks. Blue Amberols sold in decreasing numbers until 1929, when Edison left the record business, only days before the stock market crash (UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive 2026).