[78-L] Sharing sequence numbers between labels

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
>I have fairly large series of label images of these ARC labels.
> The last known year-month numbers of the various labels are:
> Banner 7-01
> Melotone 8-02
> Oriole 7-04
> Perfect 8-05
> Romeo 8-02
>
> Possibly the number of issues was small and selective during the last 
> months of their existence.
> For example, my last 3 Romeo images are: 7-11-11, 7-12-02, and 8-02-51.
> Last available Perfects are: 8-04-06 & -62, and 8-05-01.
> Surprisingly, there are hardly any country/race issues on Banner. Ban 
> 6-02-62 suggests
> a normal number of releases during Feb 36, but for the following 12 months 
> the only other
> country/race images I have are 6-07-51, 6-08-52, 6-09-51 & 7-01-52 ! 
> Explanations?
>
First...you have done MUCH better than I have!!

Second, neither Melotone nor Perfect were "client labels"...I am guessing 
that the "owners"
of client labels (Romeo = S. H. Kress; Oriole = McCrory's; Banner MAY= 
Kresge's?!)
had some "say" in what sides were pressed on their labels, based on what 
they thought/
guessed would sell for them.

Your list suggests that Banner "died" in early 1937, with Oriole lasting a 
very few more
months; it also suggests that Perfect (and, I have always thought) Melotone 
lasted into
the beginning og May, 1938...and that Romeo may have as well...?

Steven C. Barr