[78-L] What the heck did I just buy!!!

[Royal Pemberton]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:33 PM, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:

> First -- an embossed-label Pathe -- I'm assuming vertical cut -- I
> can't play it of course. I wasn't paying attention when these came up
> so I don't even begin to know how to date it. One label side has 1503
> in a diamond at 6 o'clock then has a number 4 at 12 o'clock. Around
> it it says (apologies for the missing accents) 860-Le Trouvere - av
> choeur, orch, et cloches Scene du Miserere - Chte par Vaguet et Mme
> Valllandri. Below the word Pathe it has the number 82417-ER. The flip
> also has a 1503 in a diamond, albeit smaller, and an 18 at  12
> o'clock as well as a stamping of Made in Belgium. Around the lobale
> it says 791 - Rigoletto  - Quatuor chte par M.M. Vaguet et Albers ,
> Mmes J Marinan et Beriza av orch. Any ideas about this one?
>
> Yes, vertical cut; inside start, and 90 RPM.   (Quick and dirty way to hear
it is dub it to a reel-to-reel at 45 rpm with the tape machine running at
its next-to-highest speed, then play it back at the fastest speed.)

Disc made between c.1906 and c.1915 although the master cylinders could have
been recorded much earlier.