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Comment by xiphophilos:

Interesting. These two features of Oakland pressings I hadn't yet noticed myself, so thanks for sharing, Han!

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Comment by han enderman:

Co 1972-D - At least for some time, the West Coast label blanks are different from the Bridgeport labels; i.e., the label type shows a small difference that is never present on the eastern pressings. In this case, it is the vertical stripe after 'AND' (and before 'RE') at 5 ('ANDI'). Another West Coast difference is the absence of the copyright symbol (see here) for some time. Therefore I assume these label blanks were printed in California.

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Comment by jakal68:

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Comment by xiphophilos:

From 1927 Bridgeport typesetters began using a sans-serif font, 10-point Gothic Condensed No. 1, for song titles - very possibly to distinguish from Oakland pressings. From Fall 1926 to 1935 Columbia's Oakland pressing plant used a serif font, 12 point Century Expanded, see W.B.lbl’s comments at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/15304d&rc=322333#322333
[In 1935, the Oakland plant was replaced by the new ARC pressing plant in Hollywood.]

The Oakland pressing seems to be using up an older label style:
Viva-tonal style label marked as "Viva-tonal Recording" with one patent date (Jan. 21, '13) and patent nr. RE. 16588 (used 1928-1929 per M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 32).

The Bridgeport pressing shows a Viva-tonal style label marked as "Viva-tonal Recording" with one patent date (Jan. 21, '13) and patent nr. RE. 16588 and 1702564 (used August 1929 to April 1930). That doesn't actually make it a repress.

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Comment by han enderman:

Co 1972-D - The labels with the titles in large serifed font, and a different layout of the credit, are the West Coast pressing. The "normal" East Coast pressing has titles in normal non-serif font. When there was a change of label type on the East Coast, the West Coast still used its remaining stock of the older type. Thus a new label type is introduced often slightly later on the West Coast.
And actually this West Coast label blank is different from the East Coast version, but it takes some time to discover the difference (and it is not mentioned in Sherman-Nauck).

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Comment by Mike Gann:

A-side and B-side label images added from an earlier pressing