[78-L] Victor release date

[Rodger Holtin]

Can anybody explain Cyclosis in the upper right hand corner of the larger label?  From looking at some dealer pages on page 32 in the Record Research issue # 51/52 May/June 1963 on Perfect Records, it would appear this Cyclosis was a short-hand way for dealers to order this disc.  They assigned words from a dictionary page to quantities of records and another list to equate to record releases.  Kinda neat system that was a good way to thwart typos and other miscues in using numbers only to place orders.  I'm guessing this may have been in the telegraph days, too, where words may have been easier, faster or cheaper to send that strings of numbers.  Am I right about any of that?  Any explanation how the Victor system worked?


 
Rodger


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 From: Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
To: 78-L <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:35 PM
Subject: [78-L] Victor release date
 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SOPHIE-TUCKER-Doing-What-Im-Doing-for-Love-Feathering-My-Nest-Victor-21993-/271259361412?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f28516084&nma=true&si=u%252FpLh8ZwP%252BUcu%252FJ%252BovSAljvCJ7E%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557#ht_920wt_981

Here (# 271259361412) is shown (still visible for a few days):
SOPHIE TUCKER: Doing What I'm Doing for Love & Feathering My Nest / Victor 21993
in its orig. dealer sleeve, which has printed date July 5, 1929.
Apparently the official release date.

Two questions:
- was it forbidden to sell the record before this date?
- how many release dates there were each month?
The major companies issued monthly catalogue supplements, but how 
did such months relate to the actual date(s) of release?

han enderman
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