[78-L] Schizophrenic Victor Scroll

[Michael Biel]

bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:
> I  have a few scroll annd batwing Victors like that... it's not 'rare' but quite a curiosity :)
>
>
>   

I had never thought it unusual because some of the first records I had 
when I was a little kid were like this. There were a couple of green 
label Columbia acoustical Jewish records which had normal size labels on 
one side and tiny labels under two inches on the other.

Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> 
>
>   
>> Note that the B side runs much longer, so they had to use a smaller label. This 
>> doesn't account for the odd mixing of label sizes in the 30s where record 
>> length wasn't a factor (seen this many times, and not just on reissues where a 
>> smaller label size had become standard in the intervening years). 
>>
>> dl 
>>
>> jeffrey smedbron wrote: 
>>     
>>> Was going thru some 78s found this summer and came across this odd looking 
>>>       
>> Orthophonic Victor. Small label on b side and the big label on the A side. I 
>> don’t recall seeing this before on any Victors. Is this anomalous or was this 
>> done on other issues too? 
>>     
>>> http://merr.com/users/xcentrik/vico1.JPG 
>>> http://merr.com/users/xcentrik/vico2.JPG 
>>>
>>> Jeff S 
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