[78-L] R: another trivia question

[Alfonsi Sergio]

I read somewhere that GM or GA (and so on) indicates the stamper. 
On early G&T's stamper was inidcate by Roman Number II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII - IX - X

On those years only one record (Caruso - Mattinata) reach an high number of stamper over the 10th ( I see it with XXII stamper) 
 

BUT at those days X was used for those records who was re-recorded by artists. 
For example :
The Red G&T recorded by Caruso on March 1902 Aida / Celeste Aida (Mx: 1784) was 52369
When he re-recorded the same aria on November 1902 the record number was 52369 X
There are many similar on G&T catalogue ( Caruso- Mefistofele 52348 and 52348 X)

The X was on schellack too and not only on label. So to don't make a mess for records over the 10th stamper they used G

GRAMOPHONE are 9 different letters so the used as 
1234567 89

GG it means 11th stamper	 
GR it means	12
GA it means	13	
GM it means	14
GO it means	15
GP it means	16
GH it means	17
GN it means	18
GE it means	19

What's happened for 20th? Simply.....  R
R it means 20th
RG it menas 21
RR it means 22 
AND SO ON... .SO ON ... SON ON

 
Sergio Alfonsi


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Da: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] Per conto di DAVID BURNHAM
Inviato: martedì 4 agosto 2009 22:02
A: 78-L at 78online.com
Oggetto: [78-L] another trivia question

If anyone's interested in another trivia question, here's one for you:

I think everyone on this list will know that the Gramophone company in England put a letter at the 3:00 o'clock position of a record which indicated how many stampers have been made up to the point of the production of the disc, (I'm not expressing this very well because I'm not 100% sure of the designation).   These letters were assigned in sequence to spell out "Gramophone Company" and when they got to the last letter they started over again with pairs of letters starting with GR then GA  then GM etc.  Most records you find have a single letter and often it's a "G", but when I was in England in the late 70s, I discovered that several collectors were searching for a specific record and were really envied if they were able to find a copy with a single letter, even if it wasn't a "G".  They all had several copies with various combinations of two letters or more and vied with each other to get the earliest combination.  None of them had a single letter
 version, (one had a one letter copy which was broken).  

Any idea what that record may have been?

db
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