[78-L] Metal 78 Stampers

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

EMI is closing down in a few days, a French producer just told me

Hold on to your stampers

BC

Le 29 oct. 09, à 20:38, Alexandre Benoit a écrit :

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> Right before the Pathe pressing plant in Chatou (France) was taken 
> down,
> several French collectors kept a friendly relationship with a 20 years 
> old,
> naive  woman who was in charge of the archive. This was in fact a 
> storage
> hall full of matrices and stampers. This young woman allowed people to 
> take
> home metal parts over the weekend for copying. 
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> I was told that some guys took 20 parts with them and brought back 12.
> This is why metal matrices (with grooves) and stampers are not so 
> uncommon
> among French collectors. I have several of them, negatives and 
> positives.
> This Chatou plant pressed for HMV and most other major labels.
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> For one of these discs I have every production step: from the original 
> lacquer
> to the pressed record. Both sides.
> In the end, Pathe did NOT sell the metal parts to scrap metal dealers, 
> but rather 
> kept the archive. Initially, collectors were thinking they were saving 
> this stuff from
> destruction.
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