[78-L] Schizophrenic Victor Scroll

Michael Shoshani mshoshani at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 31 17:39:18 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 23:45 +0000, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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?


Smallest I've seen is just under three inches in diameter. Victor used
that size on 12" records that ran really exceptionally long.






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