[78-L] Standard Talking Machine Records

[Royal Pemberton]

All of them I have ever seen or know of were remaindered Columbia records,
with the same catalogue numbers as they had in their original Columbia
incarnations.  And would thus have the same grooving, etc., as 'real'
Columbias.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bart <garioch at texas.net> wrote:

>
> I saw a small stack of records from The Standard Talking Machine Co. of
> Chicago, the ones with the oversize center hole.
>
> A quick google found info about the company, its players, and the
> oversize center punch, but what struck me handling the disks was how
> impossibly tiny and shallow the grooves were.  Would these things have
> ever been playable?  They were very thick and quite worn though the
> warning labels on the undersides were intact on most of them.  Were
> these made of shellac?  They felt more like some sort of rigid plastic.
>
> Because of their size (close to 7") they were in with some 45's. By
> comparison the STM grooves looked even smaller.  Artists weren't
> mentioned on the label, merely song titles; though one was presumably
> Cal Stewart because it was entitled Uncle Josh does something or another
> - I forget what...
>
> Bart  (not really a fan of Uncle Josh)
>
>
>
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