1907 Single sided Imperial UNITED KINGDOM Beautiful and scarce 78rpm HENRY BURR
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See Frank Andrews: FTR 2, 2002, pp73-5. This comprehensive write-up by Frank informs us that the discs were made by the U.S. firm Leeds & Catlin of New York, and imported to the U.K. beginning about April 1906. They were single sided. 600 issues were available by January 1907. The small (~1.5?) ‘back-sticker’ is present only on some (early?) examples. This is probably because the sticker stipulates that the discs may only be used on a machine with a feed-screw – like a cylinder phonograph. This was part of a dodge to avoid infringing a U.S. patent. Surprising as it may seems to us, the fact that the sound-box playing a disc was carried across the disc by the very groove which it was tracking, was a crucial patent in the U.S. at the time. But as far as I know, it was totally irrelevant in the U.K., so eventually, no back-stickers? Imperial had some recordings, of exalted status, made for them in Europe, by Favorite. By way of contrast, in 1907 the famous Scottish baritone Ian Colquhoun went to the U.S. and recorded over 30 sides, presumably mainly for the British market. However, in 1909, after long-ongoing patent litigation, Leeds & Catlin were compelled to stop manufacturing discs. The residual stock was sold off cheaply; in this country, largely by Gamages. Single sided Imperials are quite scarce. Some of the Favorite sides were issued in the U.K. at higher prices. They had a different, black label featuring just the crown, and are excessively rare. In 1911 the trade mark was acquired by the Sound Recording Company – see below. N.B. Frank originally wrote up Imperial in TMR 69 & 70, 1984-85. Those articles are still worthy of study.
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I will provide answers and pictures if you need more.
The record is heaver than a early Victor one sided Disc
I did only a visual on this and there are some scratches but not any thing that would cause a skip are lots of noise interference.
There is no pitting, and grooves look clean,
Label on the back has wear and label in the front has a small blemish size of a dime look close.
Shipping will be FED x unless another shipper is preferred by the buyer. A handling charge is for insurance and necessary boxing.
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