[78-L] Signed-in-wax recordings post-Berliner (such as Mary Garden on Columbia A 1190) query.

[Michael Shoshani]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 20:14 +0100, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I found a fairly nice copy of A 1190 at the local Salvation Army yesterday.
> One of the things that moved me to buy it was seeing that Mary Garden had
> autographed the dead wax area on both sides of it.
> 
> Handwritten/signed label copy went out with the adoption of paper labels
> around 1900, but is there a listing anywhere of recordings afterward where
> the performer signed the wax (or waxes) like Mary Garden did with this disc?


I have a Victor pressing of an HMV-issued recording of "Song of the
Volga Boatmen" by Chaliapin; in the dead wax of this 12-incher is a
signature in a somewhat shaky hand: Feodor Chaliapin Tokio 1936.

He may have signed it "Chaliapine", as his name was spelled on HMV
records. It's at home and I am not, so I am unable to check it.

MS