[78-L] HMV catalog/archive?

[Michael Biel]

While we are on the subject of books and discographies, I have just 
stumbled across the listing with photographs of part of a 5000 jazz 
discography auction that was held in 2007.  This is just part III and is 
sixteen pages of lots.  You will see things here you never dreamed had 
been published.  Here's page one.  
http://www.nationalbookauctions.com/11182007/18november071.htm  You can 
get to the other 15pages from here, but can anyone find the other parts 
of the auction?

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com 

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> To answer my own question, the City of London Phonograph & Gramophone 
> Society (CLPGS) has both the HMV B & BD series lists for sale at $70 and 
> $45, respectively. The E series is also available but I'm not sure if 
> the EA issues are covered in it.
> http://www.clpgs.org.uk/bookshop_temp_page.htm
> That was too easy.
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> On 7/7/2010 6:13 AM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Benno.
>> I'd love to go on a field trip to England, if I could get someone to pay
>> for it!
>> I have lots of collector/historian/discographer friends there I've never
>> met.
>> What I really need are song title/matrix&  issue number lists of B, BD
>> and EA issue series recordings produced in 1920s-1930s. Perhaps the
>> CLPGS may have these. I'm checking.
>> Mal
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 7/5/2010 10:01 AM, goldenbough at arcor.de wrote:
>>    
>>     
>>> Malcolm,
>>> there are indeed plenty of catalogs around listing what was issued, but there is no catalog
>>> of what they actually have in their archive.
>>>
>>> You would think that they have everything they issued, but this is not the case. For example,
>>> the HMV AX series of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian material:  they only have about
>>> 60% (my guess).
>>> On the other hand, they have also runs of, say, Turkish Columbia RT series (with which they
>>> legally had nothing to do). Or records which the HMV Dum Dum plant in Calcutta (now: Kolkata)
>>> pressed. I suppose that these series were sent them as a courtesy. And even in all these series
>>> 40% seems to be missing.
>>>
>>> I have a photo of the Victor 38.000 Blues series there (at the old premises), where these $5000
>>> records were leaning at a 45 degrees angle in the shelves!
>>>
>>> In short: they have most of what they issued, plus some from other companies.
>>>
>>> Same is true for paperwork. Binders with correspondnce are there, but were obviously not
>>> systematically kept.  1904 may be well documented, and then maybe 1905, for an unknown
>>> reason, is not.
>>>
>>> As a matter of fact, they don't even know what they have. You'd have to make an appointment
>>> with them and check on the spot.
>>>
>>> Benno
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>       
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