[78-L] Columbia blue on white labels, revisited

[David Lennick]

Attn Steve Barr and others..I found another Canadian Columbia from the mid 
1910s with a monochrome label, white with blue print. I doubt that it's a 
custom pressing, more likely from a period when materials might have been in 
short supply for some reason. And by coincidence I came across the same disc 
with a normal label, also a Canadian issue. It's a pretty common record, 
Arrival Of the British Troops In France, Columbia P-23 in the Patriotic Series 
(did this have a US issue?) from British matrices 29160 and (unreadable). The 
full color label, which is also on a white background, has a big Union Jack at 
the top between "Columbia" and "Record" and the blue-on-white label has a "Note 
the Notes" logo in that spot. Slight differences in the pressings (matrix 
numbers showing or not showing, ring inside the last groove or not etc). But it 
does suggest that other discs were pressed with this odd style label.

dl