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Re: [ARSCLIST] Victor Red Seal Sets



My understanding is that pairs of Victor discs were sold separately, as if
they were singles, with whatever sleeves the dealer chose for selling (or
whatever the customer chose to use, which could have included an unnumbered
album). Only pairs which were numbered as sets came with albums and notes;
there were a few special exceptions and a few pairs which began as pairs
and later received set numbers and albums. For many years one could buy, at
least by special order, just one disc from a set.

Richard Warren

At 12:03 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
My apologies if this is a duplicate message, I hit "reply to sender
earlier rather than "to all."

...I have noticed that often late 1920s Victor Red Seal versions of
works comprised of 2 discs have no "set #."  I have checked in an early
30s Vctor catalogue and discovered that these "sets" are listed as
separate entities.  An example is the Koussevitsky/Boston Daphnis and
Chloe suite no. 2 on Victor 7143/7144.

My question is how were items like these originally packaged?  In an
unnumbered album?  Or were customers given the option of buying just one
disc-for whatever reason?

thanks

D. Sager


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