Duet
"With Orchestra"
"Awarded First Prize Buffalo,St.Louis And Portland Expositions"
"Grand Prize"
Notice pasted on to blank side 6cm x6.8cm
Label diameter 9.8cm
Matrix (play side) - DD4546 (machine stamped and B2868 (hand etched)
Recorded Philadelphia, PA, November 7, 1905.(DAHR)
Images
Number:1476673 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By:gregs45s SUBS Description: Victor 4546 play side (1908 repress)
Number:1476674 Uploaded By:gregs45s SUBS Description: Victor 4546, patent notice on blank side
Number:1476675 Uploaded By:gregs45s SUBS Description: Victor 4546, 1908 patent notice on blank side, Detail
This is the second-to-last version of the Grand Prize label, which already lists the U.S. Patent registration in the shading under Nipper's feet, but not yet the Mexican registration (M. de. F. - Marca Industrial Registrada). The Feb. 1908 sticker on the back dates this repress pretty securely between Feb.-Dec. 1908 (cf. M. W. Sherman, Collector's Guide to Victor Records, p. 64).
@xiphophilos. Hi,no i can't find a "1" anywhere,only just noticed though that there is a machine stamped "H" on the blank side,but what you suggest is entirely plausible,i.e,a repress seems likely.
Is this maybe a later repress? Can you see a take number in the runout, like a little 1? Three takes were recorded, and it could be that the first matrix wore out and they used a later take to do more pressings.
Unsure of date here. If you went by other cat. no's already on the site, one would figure 1905/06, and yet, the notice on the back is dated Feb 1,1908.
(NB: A bit of searching has the DAHR website showing this as recorded 1905-11-07, and the release date as 1/1906, so I have gone with that, and so I presume the notice on the back must have been added at a later date?)