[78-L] V-Disc - Vinyls/Shellacs.

[Royal Pemberton]

>  Were the Columbia shellac discs laminated pressings?
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> Yes. They MAY have done some vinyls..I know I have a couple that have
> Columbia
> matrix numbers, like Earl Wrightson's "Rodger Young", but most Columbia
> cuttings are their usual laminated shellac. A couple of years ago I bought
> a
> huge load of VDs from someone who'd saved them, mint, since 1945, and he
> packed
> them badly..all the ones that broke were Columbias.
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> dl
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I saw a VD back around 1980 whose cutting on one side (if not both) did
resemble 1940s Columbia product, and it was vinyl.  Sliightly thicker vinyl
than the VDs that slightly resembled Victor records.