RARE 1910\'s The Imp Early UK Label 78 Fred Roberts Scare Less than 6 Known V+
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RARE 1910\'s The Imp Early UK Label 78 Fred Roberts Scare Less than 6 Known V+:
$1199.99
This is apparently a pretty rare 78, made in the UK and dates to about 1912. Information was sourced from the website early78s.uk, if you go there and search under the letter \"I\", you can find this description I have posted below.
\"See TMR (Talking Machine Review) 90, 91, 1995. In TMR 90, John Booth, the editor, reproduced an IMP label in monochrome, and asked for any further information. The label colour was not stated. In TMR 91, Frank Andrews replied that these were produced by ‘Edison Bell’ from Bell Disc and possibly Winner masters. The proprietor is unknown. Curiously, Frank reveals that no less than four of these IMP records have been found in the U.S.A. As they are practically unknown in the U.K., one is forced to conjecture whether they were made here for export to the U.S.A? This seems to us rather unlikely, as the USA generally had high import tariffs. Some of the sides date from 1908; but the IMP in TMR 90 (as also the one here) has a copyright stamp; these came in in 1912. Still, the presence of a copyright stamp at this early period is not, we think, proof that the disc was definitely sold in the U.K. There are instances (also involving ‘Edison Bell’ as it happens) of Minstrel and Herald records made for J E Pidgeon in New Zealand, which have been seen with U.K. stamps. Perhaps in those early days it did not matter whether the royalty was paid in the country of manufacture or the country of consumption? Anyway, IMP records, needless to say, are very scarce indeed. Perhaps the rather sinister appearance of its eponymous being is to blame?\"There is also another \"The Imp\" label 78 of a different artist currently listed here on along with another rare record in one lot. This is your chance to get a record of this RARE label by itself. So between the info given here and the other on right now that is offered for sale, plus our copy here that\'s for sale in this listing, that\'s approximately six total of these Imp label 78\'s that exist in the world. This one, just as this description states, has a little circular UK copyright stamp on the labels. The artist if Fred Roberts, it\'s catalogue number 124 from this label with the songs Laughing All the Day/Come Under my new Gamp. I have not listened to it; but visually it\'s a decent copy, grades out at a V+.
RARE 1910\'s The Imp Early UK Label 78 Fred Roberts Scare Less than 6 Known V+:
$1199.99