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

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> 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.
>
It is quite possible that P-23 (and other early "Patriotic" disgs?) were 
issued
with blue-on-white labels...at that point Columbia(C) had most (all?) of its
labels printed in the USA! These records are easy to recognize; they use a
different "font" from their USW versions!

Steven C. Barr