[78-L] Schizophrenic Victor Scroll

[Royal Pemberton]

The first record I ever saw sporting different sized labels on each
side was Columbia A 2408, 'Somewhere in France is the lily' by Henry
Burr backed with 'Where the great red dawn is shining'  by Charles
Harrison.  1917 record with period blue gold band labels.  The
Harrison side has the normal size of label for the era but the Burr
side has a smaller label, about the size of the labels adopted in
1930.

What is the smallest size label ever used on a 10 inch or 12 inch record?



On 12/31/08, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> 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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