[78-L] Hail to the sleeve, #2: OPA ceiling prices

[GENE JOSLIN]

--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:

> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Hail to the sleeve, #2: OPA ceiling prices
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 10:37 PM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <davdieh at aol.com>
> > Well, Majestic didn't exist under that name until
> early 1946! It was
> > originally
> > "Hit"...an Obie label, and that was sold to the makers
> of Majestic radios
> > (again, NOT the original user of THAT name either!"
> who changed the label
> > name and design to match their main product!
> > ...stevenc
> >
> > In fact, Majestic bought Hit in February of 1945. OPA
> came about in Jan., 
> > 1942 but I don't think it got around to meddling with
> phonograph records 
> > until the summer.
> > It was dismantled in 1947 but most of its rules seem
> to have expired much 
> > earlier. Can't think of any milestones that would
> allow us to date the 
> > sleeves any more exactly.
> > -David Diehl
> >
> Thanxes muchly! My estimate was off by almost a year, it
> looks like.In any 
> case
> we can assume that OPA-price sleeves were only used from
> 1/1942 until
> sometime in 1947; I suspect the ceiling prices for records
> didn't change 
> during
> that period?
> 
> As well, I dimly recall that somebody was going to create a
> sleeve-related
> web site...?! Am I remembering right...and, if so, did the
> party ever post
> anything useful? It would be a challenge to try and find
> EVERY different
> sleeve...particularly if the different records being
> promoted were to be
> considered as separate varieties! I would guess that I have
> about 15,000
> 78 sleeves (NOT different...but the total after I disregard
> replacement
> "blank" sleeves as well as some made from other paper
> bags...I bought
> A LOT of 78's from Don Keele that were in these "homemade"
> sleeves
> with artists, titles and catalog numbers neatly written on
> one corner!)...!
> 
> ...stevenc 

Long ago I read that Victor's late 1920's sleeves were created by one gifted pen and ink artist/designer with an un-assuming name, now long forgotten by me, at least.

Does anyone know who this could have been, since his sleeve art so beautifully delineated the Orthophonic era?

Gene Joslin
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