[78-L] 10" Par-O-Ket?

[Michael Biel]

George Blacker was compiling info on vertical labels many, many years
ago.  There might be something in Record 
Research if this was one of the vertical labels he was looking at.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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Subject: [78-L] 10" Par-O-Ket?
From: Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net>
Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 9:35 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

I've asked this question before but some new potential evidence has
shown up for me to ask again.  As you may or may not know Par-O-Ket is a
U.S. 7" vertical cut record from 1916-1918.  The more common catalog
number series starts at 2 (maybe 1 but I have never seen anything
showing it) and runs to 125 (last number announced in Talking Machine
World).  In June of 1917 the only listing I've seen of the rarer 500
series showed up and numbers there ranged from 509 to 530.  In May of
1917 they announced in the Talking Machine World that they would soon
manufacture a 10" disc because of increased demand from jobbers to sell
a 10" record for under 75 cents. The last listing given is December 1917
and by May 1918 they were bankrupt and their assets were being sold off
- along with 30,000 records. I had yet to ever see anything else about
the 10" record and no one has admitted to ever seeing one.

Why am I bringing this up again?  I finally came across my first 500
series records and they showed up today.  I checked Ty's site again to
see what he had listed for the 500 series.  New to me was he has number
530 as being 10."  The record listing of June 1917 makes no mention of
this and my highest number record is 524 and it's a 7" record.

So I ask again - has anyone ever seen one?  Ty - where does the
information come from?  Was it a physical example?

Thanks,
Glenn
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