[78-L] recording date Mattia Battistini?

[Michael Shoshani]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 19:15 +0100, Björn Jakobsson wrote:
> Hi everybody. I found a 12" pink labelled HMV record today with the baritone Mattia Battistini. I wonder if anybody could help me with the recording date (or at least year)?
> 
> Mattia Battistini
> Pagliacci - prologue part II (Leoncavallo)
> Record number: HMV 052306
> matrix: 261ai

According to a review in Gramophone, it was recorded in 1912:

http://bit.ly/asSuOF

But I wonder why it has a pink label? Battistini was one of the few
Gramophone Company artists to have his own unique label color, which was
orange.

MS