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Topic: RCA Victor Mid-to-Late 1940's - Pressing Plant Identification by Center Label Design Variations

16th May 2014, 8:30 PM
	W.B.lbl The Collector's Collector Member since Feb 2012 3786 Points Moderator	As seen here, a sheet printed by RCA Victor Division's Record Department dated 08 Dec 1947, indicating how to identify a pressing by how the concentric rings (a.k.a. "label circles") are presented on the center label. As of that period, all of the pressing plants operated by the label used the exact same typesetting on the label (Monotype News Gothic and Condensed the primary ones). The plant variations of the center label design and their description (or "identification") are as follows: - Camden, NJ (closed 1949): "Two concentric circles broken away from small RCA circle." - Canonsburg, PA (opened 1947, converted to 45 RPM-only manufacture in 1949 and closed around 1953): "Camden Type Circle - Break at top." - Indianapolis, IN (opened 1939, moved to new quarters in 1979): "Two concentric circles nearly touch small RCA circle." - Hollywood, CA (closed 1976): "Indianapolis Type circle - Break at top." This, before they came up with the brilliant idea of stamping the plant location's initial (i.e. "I", "H") in the deadwax starting in the later '40's/early '50's - and even then, up to the introduction of the color Nipper "black label, dog on top" design, Indianapolis and Hollywood pressings still had their respective variants (with Hollywood, from about 1952 or '53 on, further distinguished by differing label typesetting courtesy the Bert-Co printing concern). Edited by moderator on 12th Jan 2016, 5:16 PM