[78-L] Added Blue Price Stickers on early Columbia Labels

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <78records at cdbpdx.com>
> Many of the early blue label Columbia records have a repricing label 
> affixed to each side. Most appear to be machine cut and applied while 
> others seem to be cut out and applied by hand. I recently found an older 
> black label Columbia with the blue repricing sticker on each side.
> 1) Exactly how were these repricing labels applied?
>
Apparently some type of strong and long-lasting adhesive, since the stickers 
are still
holding 90 years and more since they were put in place...>!
>
> 2) Blue repricing stickers on black labels? Looks kind of weird.
>
During the "notes label" era, the background colour of Columbia labels 
changed
back and forth ftom black to blue each time the list price changed...so the 
"stickers"
giving the changed price(s) also had to match the "previous" label colour. 
Since
some dealers may have had records from a previous price change, these would
not have matched the stickers Columbia provided...?!

Steven C. Barr