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9th Dec 2012, 8:37 AM		#1 REPORT
	leonard BLANK Member since Jun 2011 45809 Points Moderator	I thought we agreed of typing in the exact cat# as it appears on the label. Yet 7 out of 8 submissions on UK MGM seem to be missing the point.

9th Dec 2012, 5:33 PM		#2 REPORT
	leonard BLANK Member since Jun 2011 45809 Points Moderator	Also London UK is missing all it's points between the letters and the figures. Now we have HL.xxxx, HL xxxx and HLxxxx. Please let us be consequent.

9th Dec 2012, 5:47 PM		#3 REPORT
	Orbiting Cat ● Member since Jan 2008 1189 Points Administrator	Agreed, best to type what's on the label. Moderators can edit the cat# freely.

10th Dec 2012, 1:06 PM		#4 REPORT
	KeithS SUBS Member since Dec 2009 12560 Points Moderator	On another tack...I read somewhere that certain record company catalogue numbers in the olden days of the 78 were prefixed by letters which represented the colour of the label. Philips PB was Pale Blue and the original Columbia DB series were Dark Blue. Anyone got any further examples

10th Dec 2012, 1:37 PM		#5 REPORT
	getalife So many questions, so few answers Member since Nov 2010 882 Points Moderator	leonard wrote: Also London UK is missing all it's points between the letters and the figures. Now we have HL.xxxx, HL xxxx and HLxxxx. Please let us be consequent. Hands up, sorry I missed the “.” on my two entries also the space between “.” and numbers, any other that I add will be as label.

10th Dec 2012, 9:08 PM		#6 REPORT
	LouisSidney Member since May 2012 10674 Points	privatecitizen wrote: On another tack...I read somewhere that certain record company catalogue numbers in the olden days of the 78 were prefixed by letters which represented the colour of the label. Philips PB was Pale Blue and the original Columbia DB series were Dark Blue. Anyone got any further examples Italian Columbias: GQX, BQX, GQ, BQ were light blue CQX were deep blue OQ were orange, and so on

11th Dec 2012, 1:04 AM		#7 REPORT
	Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4150 Points Moderator	Quote: Philips PB was Pale Blue and the original Columbia DB series were Dark Blue Nice if true - but HMV 'DB's were crimson

11th Dec 2012, 11:01 AM		#8 REPORT
	Tony P Member since Feb 2011 1498 Points	The following record (like several Philips 78's of the same era has the word green on the label even though the label is blue! Note that I have included the two dots in the cat number as on the disc. However I fell this will make searching for a particular cat number very difficult. Numbers given in record catalogues do not include dots.

11th Dec 2012, 11:08 AM		#9 REPORT
	Dr Doom SUBS ● I wanna eat an artichoke once in a while Member since Feb 2008 25440 Points Administrator	tony p wrote: The following record (like several Philips 78's of the same era has the word green on the label even though the label is blue! Note that I have included the two dots in the cat number as on the disc. However I fell this will make searching for a particular cat number very difficult. Numbers given in record catalogues do not include dots. We can add both P.B. 145 and then PB 145 as a secondary catalogue number (or vice versa) My knowledge of 78s isn't good enough to make the kind of decisions we made in the early days of 45cat (i.e. dropping 45- prefixes) so it's a little bit of making it up as we go along!

11th Dec 2012, 12:21 PM		#10 REPORT
	VinylSid Member since Dec 2012 618 Points	tony p wrote: The following record (like several Philips 78's of the same era has the word green on the label even though the label is blue! Note that I have included the two dots in the cat number as on the disc. However I fell this will make searching for a particular cat number very difficult. Numbers given in record catalogues do not include dots. Hi Tony. The 'Green' on the label told the confused owner to use the 78 stylus (often shown as the green side of the small 'flag' indicator on the front of multi-speed record player cartridges. 45's and LP's were the 'Red' stylus - which meant flipping the cartridge over 180 degrees). My grandad taught me that when I was four, so I wouldn't bu*er up his radiogram! Edited by VinylSid on 11th Dec 2012, 12:26 PM*

11th Dec 2012, 12:24 PM		#11 REPORT
	KeithS SUBS Member since Dec 2009 12560 Points Moderator	"Sharp end downwards"

11th Dec 2012, 1:01 PM		#12 REPORT
	Tony P Member since Feb 2011 1498 Points	Thanks for the replies

11th Dec 2012, 5:57 PM		#13 REPORT
	TheJudge ● In-house specialist in drive-by moddings. Member since Dec 2012 3718 Points Moderator	Thanks, Sid, that had baffled me for years!

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