[78-L] CO-Burning Down The House Lbl /\

[jeffrey smedbron]

Thanks Michael for the info and history on this one. Got to invest in some more reference books some day. The web is sorely lacking in much useful information - Damn you Al Gore. Any extraordinary value likely for one in E+ condition ? 

Jeff S 


--- On Thu, 1/29/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] CO-Burning Down The House Lbl
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 8:21 AM
> jeffrey smedbron wrote:
> > Here is kind of an attractive and different Columbia
> Label style I found last fall. Is this an American issue of
> German songs. Quite good choral music. Year ? Because of the
> colors I might generically call it the Christmas label, but
> the apparent dire situation depicted kind of rules that out.
> Maybe the Refugee label. Probably from an album set-Right? 
> >
> > Label Pic: http://merr.com/users/xcentrik/fire.JPG 
> >   
> Album sets were quite unusual that early, so it certainly
> is not from an 
> album set, but it is a part of a special series. 
> "Note the Notes" 
> illustrates another label in the series with an
> illustration of a 
> soldier,  a widow in black, and a young girl standing by a
> grave.  The 
> description from the book reads:
> 
> "One of a series of pictorial label designs issued in
> 1916 and early 
> 1917 to benefit  Austrian and German widows and orphans
> during the First 
> World War. When the U.S. declared war on Germany on April
> 6, 1917, this 
> series came to an abrupt end."
> 
> Spottswood shows the session for your record as circa March
> 1916.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
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