[78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?

[Royal Pemberton]

I wonder how much more expensive adding the colouring was?  That is to
say, how much more expensive it would have been to have made the
ethnics on green shellac, or adopted another label colour for them,
perhaps the orange they used on such as the Magic Notes label Cantor
Josef Rosenblatt record shown in NTN?

On 3/18/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
>> It's hard to say.  Likely depends on the pressing plants rather like
>> how it was when they abandoned the blue discs and went back to black.
>> There may even be some records whose initial appearance was on blue
>> discs but whose label stocks were printed on some of the last of the
>> black labels.
>>
> And I have seen blue-wax ethnic Columbias with GREEN labels...which
> redefine "ugly"...!
>
> ...stevenc
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