Re: [ARSCLIST] Bargain of the week.

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

Hello again,

----- one mother less to account for in this case: according to Lange 1992 
(which is virtually a reprint of Lange 1978) Tea for Two was not issued in 
Germany at all. So at least they did not need a mother.

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> As the seller says, there are only a few mothers around. I expect the 
> original negative to be in some US vaults still, and there would be one 
> mother for each pressing plant. In the present case, looking at Rust 1978 p.
> 1631, we see that this 1937 recording not only had Victor numbers, but 
> European as well (perhaps Japanese, South American and Australian as well -
> I 
> am not sufficiently versed in catalogue numbers). The reason a pressing
> plant 
> needs a mother and not just a stamper, is that the stamper had to be made 
> specially for the press used, and that was done galvanotypically and locally
> from the mother. HMV in Hayes had one type of press, Electrola in Germany 
> another, Voix de son Maître a third, and there was Italy, etc.. So very few
> were made.

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Kind regards,


George

P.S. I have now erudited myself regarding Frank Driggs by Googling him, and I 
can see that it has been a failing in my upbringing not to know about him.

P.P.S. Parker Dinkins has very kindly pointed out that the surface of the 
mother pictured on eBay is much more likely to be nickel.