In the UK at least, Philips started using that numbering system in about 1970.

It's an odd one, this; I would have expected that 78s - apart from 'novelty' releases - would not have been issued anywhere other than, say, India or the Phillipines after about 1968. Where does the number fall in terms of the sequence of Philips cat#s for Colombia?

Thanks for the info --- some digging led me to

6045502 - Clodomiro Montes

Those track were released on a 1970 LP

Traigo salsa

So -- if 6045 502 was a 1970 45 rpm, can it be that 6045 527 is a 1970/ 1971 78 (based on the matrix etching)?

Can we say gulp!

Amy

I SERIOUSLY don't know what you mean here Zabadak!

Zab is referring to the fact that I am dead set against people posting full matrix numbers with mother/ stamper indicia from the run out grooves because it is meaningless. Example -- label says matrix is 9966, but someone shows in notes Matrix 9966-D2. All that means is that stamper D2 was used for their particular pressing. Other people may have records pressed by stamper D1 or E2. Only 9966 is canon across all pressings of the record, not 9966 D2. In know in many cases records that I own are different stampers when compared to what soeone else has entered.

I know I'm a bit of pain about this, but I really feel that its extraneous info.

Amy

Nonono, I thought you didn't like "repros" of things which weren't on 78 in the first place...

Don't get me started on the idiotic RSD Beach Boys 78 of Good Vibrations!

Amy