[78-L] Plastic Decca

[Michael Biel]

Is it real red like a regular colored record or is it just slightly
translucent showing reddish purple when light shines through?  The
latter type were the unbreakable Deccas pressed in the former Vogue
picture disc factory which Decca took over.  The ones I've seen like
this are U.S. of course.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

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Subject: Re: [78-L] Plastic Decca
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>


As far as I can recall, they used the regular 29xxx numbers, possibly
with a 
prefix..I haven't seen that List Rachmaninoff set for quite a while
(have it, 
haven't touched it in the last few moves). They all had large labels,
which 
Compo was still using into 1946. (Yup, that's right Mr. Bergen, we're
kinda 
slow up here, yup yup yup yup yup yup.)

dl

On 10/17/2011 9:59 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
>> What catalog nrs / series are we talking about?han enderman===
> They also issued the Rachmaninoff 2nd Concerto with Eugene List on that kind of
> plastic. Those are the only Canadian ones I've seen prior to the later
> Deccalites of around 1949 and on.    dl
>
> On 10/17/2011 2:53 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:

>>> But one interesting, (to me), record is a red plastic 12 inch record from Decca, (Wallenstein's "Warsaw Concerto"). The label is like a typical 1940ish Canadian Decca label except above the word Decca it says "Plastic" and below Decca it says "Vinylac". I've never seen another Decca record like this which surprises me since it must have been a series and these records are obviously "unbreakable under normal use" so there should be plenty of them around.    Does anyone know anything about this series?  db