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

Han Enderman jcenderman at solcon.nl
Sun Aug 22 05:36:25 PDT 2010


I have images of both label types for Co(C) P-10, Prince's Band: The Midnight Attack/...Tipperary.
Both 85c. Multicolor label with double (!) Note the Notes logo at left & right of spindle hole.

P-11 is a single-sided multicolor issue, mentioning Price 85c, but with notice on reverse: 
sold for 30c as sample for advertising.
This is Prince's Military Band: Land Of The Maple (recording date / US issue ?)

I have multicolor label images of (1 or both sides of) P-10, 11, 15, 25, 33, 35. Is full range known?
Also multicolor 2938: "Cohen is arrested for speeding", by Joe Hayman. What is this nr?

The Note the Notes logo was used in US in 1917 (I guess ca. Dec 1916 - Aug 1917), and then 
replaced by the Grafonola top logo.
Are release dates for this Canadian series known? Is it possible that the Note the Notes logo
was used in Canada before its use in the US?
Possibly the blue-white label was a 2nd pressing, combining features of the multicolor label
and the US Note the Notes label design ?

The P-11 notice says: "Other Columbia Double-Disc Records range in price up to $7.50 and
include a magnificent series of Grand Opera records...".
Anyone knows examples of such expensive records?

Han Enderman
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>>> 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
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US issue is Columbia A-1672.
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