[78-L] Seeking info on Nippon Columbia A1095

[Anthony G Pavick]

At 19:17 30/12/2011, RA wrote:

>Another thing I'm curious about: on all four of the Japanese 
>records, the company's name and logo have been scratched out. Not 
>enough that you can't tell what it said if you're at all familiar 
>with records, but a definite effort to erase. Any idea what the 
>story is there?

This is a rather unfortunate thing that people did to avoid 
trademark/ parallel import issues as what was Columbia and Victor in 
the USA was not the same company in Japan.

I have a number of German 45s from the late 50s early 60s on Columbia 
and Brunswick that are similarly defaced. Worst I ever saw like this 
were some US Columbia 12 inch 'disco' singles in the 1970s at the HMV 
Store on Oxford Street in London that had black electricians tape 
plastered over the word COLUMBIA

T