[78-L] Capitol label types

[Cary Ginell]

I believe that Capitol's East Coast pressing facility was located in Scranton, PA. Don't know if they were there as early as the black label series, though.

Cary Ginell

> From: jcenderman at solcon.nl
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:51:34 +0100
> Subject: [78-L] Capitol label types
> 
> A large part of the Capitol 78 series has been issued with 2 different label variants,
> differing in the typeface used for tune title and artist credit.
> 1 - The first and more common typeface is elongated. It occurs in early issues,
> ca. # 200-500, and in a large part of the popular series, ca. # 800-3000.
> 2 - The second typeface was introduced later and is smaller and round. Maybe it was 
> introduced after ca. #800 (or somewhere in the 15000 series) and also used for a few 
> repressings of early issues.
> Both fonts also occur on promo issues.
> There is a small difference between the label blanks used with both fonts:
> this concerns the position of the asterisk in the rim text at ca. 1h, after the word 'U.S.A.'.
> On type 2 there is a larger distance to the word 'purpose' [I checked this with the 60000 series].
> 
> QUESTION:
> Are these typefaces connected to different pressing plants & printers ?
> For example, West Coast / East Coast?
> Is there a relation to stamper numbers in the wax (if such are present?)?
> 
> We see these typeface variants also in the 57-60000 series.
> I have a single label image of Boplicity numbered 60011 (without prefix); 
> it has type 1 on a much later label type without upper rim text.
> 
> Until recently I only missed Alice Hall's 57-60007 label image in this series,
> but is was on ebay last month, with typeface version 1.
> 
> Han Enderman
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