I came across a gold plated TDK tape in a velvet lined presentation box, on everyone's favorite auction site the other day...
Has anyone ever seen one of them before?
Touted as "rare" (as is every item for sale there) but it could in
fact be rare (I've never seen one before) or it could be crap made up in the garage one rainy afternoon. Knowing the backstory would be good- why make a gold plated TDK cassette? Sales award?
I'm going to dig deeper on this but forgured I'd ask here since you guys know so much more than I do.
This one, below, seems to have been a "product" of some sort. I also found an ad (all Japanese) for the golden cassette.
And another style I found:
But the one for sale has "TDK" in the small upper right hand window where these above say "JAPAN"
And it looks like they used brass/plated screws for the top two cassettes and the bottom one has silver/zinc screws. The shell looks similar otherwise...
Anyone?