At least one box collecting colleague raises an interesting point in making the case that every box he has employed to convey banjos previously came from a banjo retailer (with an 85% probability). My colleague has never begun the cycle of use with an original box. That has led to some speculation that banjo boxes are neither created nor destroyed, and that Mr. John Bernunzio, Smakula International or Elderly Instruments is at the vortex of some major collecting force, the originator of all cardboard encasements for banjos, and conceivably for other stringed instruments. I intend to explore this theme in a forthcoming Banjo Newsletter article, embroidering on earlier discussions of the theory of banjo relativity.
