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Just got half-dozen of these quite interesting and unusual records. Perfectaphones are relatively easy to find, but not with this label. I presume it was issued around the end of WWI, 1918, as it shows a French and a British soldier side by side (one with its French mustache and the other with its British pipe). The music is not associated with the war, but dance music typical of the period: quadrilles, waltzes, polkas etc.

Beautiful colourful label, and how good that they came with their appropriate sleeve!

What a great find... wonderful graphics on the labels.

The main reason I love 78 records - they are so full of history.

This one is particularly wonderful !

I almost wish you wouldn't have showed us those awesome labels, as now I HAVE to find one!


-Travis

travisgreyfox wrote:I almost wish you wouldn't have showed us those awesome labels, as now I HAVE to find one!


-Travis

I bought them because of the labels, that I had never seen before. The music isn't very memorable.

Given that the labels are inscribed "disques a saphir," may I safely surmise they are of the Pathé sapphire ball vertical cut?

drh wrote:Given that the labels are inscribed "disques a saphir," may I safely surmise they are of the Pathé sapphire ball vertical cut?

Yes, the Perfectaphones are vertical (hill-and-dale) records, to be played with the same sapphire used for Pathé records. In the 1910's Pathé had such a dominance on the French market that most of its competitors (Idéal, Corona, Opéra, Diamant etc) produced also vertical-cut records.