45worlds Forum - View Single Post - To Experts: Why 3" Labels for 78's Post-1930's?

28th Aug 2015, 8:04 PM
	W.B.lbl The Collector's Collector Member since Feb 2012 3786 Points Moderator	Up to the Roaring '20's, the center labels of U.S. 78's ranged wildly in size, sometimes within the same label. Columbia's label sizes in the mid-'20's in particular were the same size of 3.5" diameter as they would use for their 45's at the point they started pressing in that speed in 1950. Other companies would have either 3.25" or 3.375" or 3.6875". But after the Crash of '29 and ensuing Great Depression, the label size shrunk to a minimum of 2.9375" and a maximum of 3" - which held right up to the demise of the 78 configuration in the late '50's. I was wondering if anyone would know the reasons for this - the exigencies of the Depression? Trying to get more grooves onto a record? The emerging jukebox market (which in time would hold great influence over how records were cut and pressed)? And on a related tangent, I wonder if anyone would know exactly what the bleed for 78 labels of this spec would have been (3.25" for a 3" label?), what the text safety would have been, how many labels would have been put on a sheet and how they were laid out and stepped center-to-center.

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