I'd be willing to bet that was a Victor Home Recording disc. They were 6" with white label or 10" with a yellow/golden label. http://www.phonozoic.net/recordio/victor1.jpg http://www.phonozoic.net/recordio/victor2.jpg http://www.phonozoic.net/recordio/victor3.jpg
I have a bunch of 6" and one 10". Can't hear what's recorded on any of them really. > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:17:21 -0800 > From: smst...@gmail.com > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? > > I may it wrong but years ago over at Bob Olson's house we were picking thru' > Bob's records as he was down sizing. The Record Ranger picked up a 7" victor > that was flexible. Teasing me to get it first Vinyl he says and rare. The > label was from the 20's. Could be wrong about any or all of it. Damn I > wanted that record. > Mike > Oldcranky > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Robert Wright <esrobe...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Actually, the Victor Home Recordings discs are straight up modern vinyl in > > every perceivable way -- exactly as flexible and plasticky as today's > > records. And those were what, 1929? Vitrolac, MGM's Metrolite, and other > > branded fomulations were part vinyl, part shellac-type something-or-other, > > and were certainly more flexible (less breakable) than shellac discs, but > > they were still more like shellac than pure vinyl. Meanwhile, the V-Discs > > from WWII (many of them but not all) were fully PVC like modern records. > > Vinyl didn't become common until the LP in 1949 as far as I remember. > > > > > > > From: cdh...@earthlink.net > > > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > > > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:52:47 -0500 > > > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? > > > > > > I was surprised a few years ago to see that RCA used Vinyl on their LP > > > discs of the early thirties. In many places, the material for those > > Program > > > Transcriptions was identified as "Victrolite" whatever that was supposed > > to > > > have been. But, I have the RCA Victor dealer fact book from 1932, where > > the > > > Long Playing records were anounced, and they said that the discs were > > made > > > of "Vinylite". It's really interesting how vinyl plastics ahve been > > around, > > > in one form or another. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Phono-L mailing list > > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
