I have copies of all three label types, and all are indeed vertical, but I'll agree none are recorded very well. The cut seems identical to similar Operaphone issues in every instance.
Tyrone ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Crescent Record & "Jackson's Challenge" > > > In a message dated 12/5/2006 10:12:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I'll have to see it with my own eyes before > I'll believe that both Allan Sutton and Kurt Nauck are wrong when they > say > the existence of universal cut Crescents remains unconfirmed, while this > gentleman claimed to have several. > > > I've played mine both vertically and laterally. The volume and sound > quality > are very nearly the same. (Not very good) I don't know what else I can > say. > I can't examine it right now since I have it stored out in the back > warehouse > in one of the boxes. > Whether it is or is not recorded at 45 degrees is not really an issue with > me. I was just confirming, from my perspective and personal experience, a > statement made in a previous post. > By the way, the collector I referred to was the late Ajax Todd of Seattle > who began collecting records way back in the teens along with his brother > Vern > Todd. Both of these gentlemen were very knowledgeable on a variety of > records > and they certainly remembered when these records were still new. > > Does anyone have any information on a "Jackson's Challenge" record made at > 219 Bowery, New York from the very early days. I also have one of these > early > single-sided discs. > > Rick A. Jorgensen > 18021 - 150th Avenue East > Orting, WA 98360 USA > > _"OLD MUSIC at AMERICAN GRAMOPHONE & WIRELESS Co._ > (http://members.aol.com/AGW1886/) > http://members.aol.com/AGW1886/ > > _GOLDEN ERA AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION_ > (http://members.aol.com/AGW1888/geaahome.htm) > http://members.aol.com/AGW1888/geaahome.htm > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
