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These are some recently purchased DD's with my A-250. Some are not in great shape,while others are. There were a few odd labels that were interspersed(different color) so as to stand out. #5005 had a greyish label on one side while the other side was the usual black etching. I was expecting to see the colors and # sequence to match up, of course it could be that I mistook a 5 to be an 8 or vice verse. Also sorry for any misspellings, as I have not looked over the list thoroughly yet. I have only listened to a few (vaudeville disc 50054, not very PC....

Edison did re-use their older labels on later pressings, sometimes resulting in the mismatch you mention.

Copeland and Sherman's Collector's Guide to Edison Records is an excellent reference...

Bill

Thanks Bill, I will be looking into purchasing a DD book soon. Anymore suggestions would be helpful in this area.


I found another that I missed before.

50079 R) “La Rumba-Tango”
L) “La Bella Argentinaa-Tango
I guess this person liked summer dreams 80130 since he purchased it twice with different labels.

I have noticed that edison also seemed to for some reason put two labels on a record, one over the other. The lower one not being the title of the selection. I don't know what that was about?

Larry