[78-L] Well Done! - and an Orthophonic Record question

[Maria Fletcher]

many thanks for the replies - I am tempted to peel off one of the labels to
look underneath - but will resist!

For the archive, I will post a photograph of the label - if the list allows
image files?

regards
Maria


On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maria Fletcher" <riafletcher at gmail.com>
> > Hi all
> > I too am new to this list and really appreciate it - so well done to all
> > to
> > get such a valuable archive back up and running.
> > To kick off with a new post, yesterday I found a boxed set on Victor -
> > "Musical Masterpieces (Orthophonic Recording) of Franck Symphony in D
> > Minor
> > - Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra." M 22 6725.
> > Each of the Red Seal discs has an overlay sticker on it which says
> > "Special
> > Record, " covering the top half of the label - can anyone tell me why
> this
> > is?
> >
> Given your Australian location, these Victor Red Seal discs would have been
> imported and sold by the Australian branch of the Gramophone Company.
>
> Since there were legal differences pertaining to who owned the rights to
> "Nipper" as one switched continents, labels of UK records sold in the
> US Of A...or vice versa...it was necessary to use "pasteover" labels
> covering the contended/trade-marked canine in other geographic
> locations...?!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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