Re: [ARSCLIST] Any early Victor experts who can tell me more about this issue?

[Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Smolian wrote:
> This is a half-label, pasted on a regular Victor pressing.  The "dog and 
> horn" trademark could not be imported to the continent from the U.S. nor 
> the reverse (there are Victor half-labels as well).  The two companies 
> operated a cartel dividing the world.  The unaltered trademark kept 
> Victor product from being sold in the Gramophone Company's territory, 
> etc. Customs would either send them back or, if they got throgh and were 
> placed on sale, often resulted in pulling the importer's franchise. 

I posted what I did earlier from work, but after reading this decided to 
check my collection once I got home. My memory had severely failed me: 
the pressings I have (Victor 71030 being in my hand) were pressed by 
Victor from G&T Matrices.  What threw me off was the label, which is the 
black pre-exhibition VICTOR RECORD label, but in an arc over Nipper it 
says "Recorded in Europe by the Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd. For sale in 
North and South America Only". The back of this disc has a greatly 
simplified version of the Recording Angel trademark, minus the 
GRAMOPHONE ring but bearing "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off."

Sorry for the misremembrance...age and all that...

Michael Shoshani