[78-L] Schizophrenic Victor Scroll

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 31 18:00:42 PST 2008


British 8-inch discs used very small labels, and of course Little Wonder had 
'em even smaller (don't have figures to hand and what am I doing online on New 
Year's Eve anyway?).

dl

Michael Shoshani wrote:
> 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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