[78-L] more teejus questions from a beginner

[Cary Ginell]

As far as collecting goes, I would pass on any KKK label from the 1920s. Aside from being racially offensive, the music is never any good. I wouldn't even buy one to invest and resell. I would take it only if it were given to me and then I would isolate it from the rest of my collection (kind of a shellac concentration camp) until I could dispose of it.  I believe many of them were pressed by Gennett, so there would be some takers somewhere - for what reason they would want it, I would not know and would not want to know.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:24:59 -0700
> From: raudiobrown at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] more teejus questions from a beginner
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> Here's the latest in my continuing series of basic questions about
> collecting 78s.
> 
> I just bought a couple of very nice Richard Jose records, mostly because the
> labels were unusual, at least to my eye. They are gold ink on a white
> background, with all the particulars type-written in, and a couple of
> corrections done long-hand with a fountain pen. Are these test pressings, or
> does this type of label have some other significance? I'd have thought this
> would be a bit early for radio promotional copies, since from what I've
> read, Jose was near the end of his time in Victor's catalog by the late
> teens/early twenties (thanks, Tim Gracyk). Oh, yes--the titles are "When You
> And I Were Young Maggie" and "Dear Old Girl."
> 
> From the same batch of records, I bought a 12" Columbia, made in England, of
> WIll Fyfe's "I'm 94 To-Day" / "I Belong To Glasgow." I already have a 10"
> version on Regal Zonophone. Can anyone tell me whether one of these is
> considered more collectible than the other, for whatever reason?
> 
> And a more generalized question: I gather there are labels one would always
> try to buy, e.g. Black Patti. Is there a list of labels one might as well
> routinely avoid? I believe I've recently read here that Cameo and Lincoln
> were thought of as copy labels. I never buy Tops, for more or less the same
> reason. Are there others to judiciously neglect?
> 
> As always, many thanks,
> Rod
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