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The top SXL is the 1st one....an ED-1 Grooved. The ED-2 Grooved has the "made in England by" at the 10-11 oclock position. The ED-3 has the same designation, but are not grooved.That's fine and all, but what about all the nomenclature to the left of the spindle hole!!! They all seem to be different....which came first....because all my pressings are grooved, am i to assume there's many variations to the ED-2??
Is there a site out there that real is thorough when it comes to these UK pressings.
What they need is someone like Ron Pendorff!!
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The site mentioned doesn't apparently show the info you seek (??) unless you part with $78.
There appears no absolute consistency... just looked @ SXL2135 - pressed 1960 - no info other than Decca logo/cat/matrix #.
You also face later pressings using earlier labels from stock 'out of sequence' - or titling not amended generally to match current releases..
Is it that important??
Anyway.
Earliest label is groove near the label edge...the Real ED1.
Earliest pressings have 'recording first published' *RH* side.
There is *no speed* denoted until c.1960 pressings.
The 'recording first blah, blah' is reduced to a (P) sometime c.'64/5 - this then re-locates to the label bottom.
For earlier SXLs you would be far better off noting the Tax info on the dead wax.
Sequence: RT/ET/OT/ZT/MT/KT - from 1958-1963 pressed...then JT from 1968.
Sometimes the tax info also appears on the label too (as in your Sibelius). From memory, the groove disappears early 1968.
....such incredible information. To the best of my knowledge, there's no internet site, record store owner, industry executive, or anyother official source for any of this info.It's taken me 25 years and a half a dozen books to under stand as much as I do about Classical vinyl and I'm still asking really stupid/neophyte questions. If it's not Rock or Jazz.......who cares?
I'm reminded of James A Mitchells detailed account on how to read the info on RCA shaded Doggies dead wax. That's truly an exception to the rule.
If you feel more comfortable discussing this topic further via E-mail, I believe my e-mail address is here at the asylum (right above subject).
This information is secret, and intiates are not supposed to reveal it in a public forum. It was available only by private tutorial from the great record collectors.I had my lesson long ago, at the house of a very famous record collector indeed.
Go to Mikrokosmos.com and type in decca. The have photographs of ED1, ED2, ED3 etc, up to the SXL Holland pressings.
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