[78-L] HMV's coloured dog

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Mike Biel wrote:

The Gramophone Company started
> with full color renditions and later (as HMV) went to duotones,
> monochrome sepia, ......

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When I was in England in the late 70s, a collector at Gramex told me that HMV 
had to dis-continue full colour trade marks during WWII because it was too 
expensive owing to a shortage of the coloured inks.

db