[78-L] Mercury Made in Czechoslovakia

[goldenbough at arcor.de]

The Gramophone Company's pressing plant at the industrial town of Aussig 
became, after WWII, the Supraphon pressing plant in what was now called 
Ustí nad Labem. 

Supraphon was well know for custom pressings. They pressed 78s for labels 
in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Albania, Pakistan - at least these are the countries 
that I have 78s from which say 'Made in Czechoslovakia'.  

I cannot imagine that such Mercury records 'Made in Czechoslovakia' were 
ever sold anywhere else than in North America, because, for example, Mercury 
pressings with Bulgarian music always turn up in the USA, but never in Bulgaria.  

Czechoslovakian records exported to the USA in 1962:   $26,000, says 
Billboard. 

Which company would have distributed, within Western Europe, some Keynote 
material pressed on Mercury-labelled records?  In Western Europe Mercury 
was generally represented by Philips International. Exceptions were Austria, 
where Mercury material appeared on Austroton, Greece (Helladisc), Italy 
(Phonogram), Sweden (Sonora), maybe others. 

Benno

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