[78-L] Scroll label

[Harold Aherne]

I'm quite certain that Will Rogers' 1923 Victor sides, originally on the blue batwing label,
were re-issued on scrolls in 1935. They've appeared on Ebay a few times that I can remember...they had normal labels, without "VE" and "Orthophonic Recording", which
no longer appeared on domestic Victors by that time anyway. [I mean VE printed on
the label of course, the diamond VE continued to appear in the runout area until at 
least 1937.]
 
At least some of the 1923 Rogers sides were recorded in February, a few months before Victor adopted run-out grooves, so that might beg the question of whether Victor
dubbed them or pressed them directly.
 
-Harold
 


 
-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:30 PM
To: 78L
Subject: [78-L] Scroll label

Is there such a thing as an acoustical with a Scroll label? It would have to
be 
something that was kept in print from before 1926, not a reissue, since 
acoustical reissues used Batwing labels and a distinctive run-out groove.
And 
the 1930 Victor catalog still shows many acousticals with their original 
catalog numbers (Fritz Kreisler, for example)..did these retain Batwing
labels 
after 1926?

dl