[78-L] Fonotipia records pressed in USA

[Sean Miller]

I didn't notice the Lauri-Volpi credit until now, either.  I have a single faced Fonotipia of his with the Okeh label on the blank back. 

Sean. 

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> On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Roger Wade <rwade1947 at comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> Many thanks to David Lennick, Sean Miller and Malcolm Rockwell for your help. 
> 
> The matrices on this record date from 1922 according to a Puccini discography I found online, so this must be an Okeh pressing.
> 
> Roger Wade
> 
> 
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:25 PM, David Lennick wrote:
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>> I have a bunch of these, and I thought the pressings were a lot earlier. Done 
>> by Columbia. 1909, according to this.
>> http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/107
>> 
>> dl
>> 
>>> On 9/23/2014 12:16 PM, Roger Wade wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a Fonotipia question for the list.
>>> 
>>> I have a Fonotipia 11 3/4 inch 78, catalog number 5038, that says "Pressed in United States under license from Societa Italiana di Fonotipia - Milan, Italy".  The label is light blue with gold and blue print.  The artist's name, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, is hand written across the label below the center hole.
>>> 
>>> I have not been able to find any information about this pressing.  When were these U.S. pressings made?  I am assuming that these are 1922 recordings but I think the record is a bit newer than that.
> 
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