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7th Apr 2021, 8:32 PM
	Stephen Harris Member since Mar 2021 193 Points	Admin/Moderator opinion required please... I am just about to add a batch of "The Twin" entries and I need some advice. I understand that "The Twin" label ran from 1908 to circa June 1911 when Zonophone took over the brand. Zonophone Twin produced new recordings and also reissued some "The Twin" recordings with a Zonophone Twin label. The tricky part is how to catalogue "The Twin" records. a. Early 1908 records had different numbers on A-side and B-side, format T-9999. These tend to have been catalogued here with the two T- numbers from the two sides. b. Later 1908 onwards The Twin introduced a single 'Ser' number per record on the label. These are catalogued here as the Ser number. c. There was a short overlap where The Twin records may or may not have a Ser number on the label. e.g. https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/t5039t5040 This entry sometimes has a Ser 45 on the label. But it was catalogued with the two T-numbers, probably because the Ser variant wasn't known at the time. From June 1911 Zonophone Twin reissued some of The Twin records with a Ser number which was not present on the original The Twin release labels. Sometimes this Zonophone Twin Ser number has been added here as a comment to the 'type a' The Twin entries, which seems a useful addition. There is one The Twin entry where the Zonophone Twin Ser number seems to have been used as The Twin catalogue number retrospectively. https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc636475uk Should this be our standard approach? i.e. we should re-catalogue any 'type a.' The Twin entries with the Ser number from their Zonophone Twin equivalents where known. Or should we stick to only Ser numbers that are actually found on The Twin labels? Either approach could work but it should be applied consistently and it doesn't seem to be at the moment. Thanks for your advice.