Record Sleeve
1929-ca.1934 (issued)
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Record bag for a Salon Decca ten-inch 78 rpm record. Machine photogravure print design promoting A Gramophone you cannot hear - you only hear the Music. The reverse of the bag has copy promoting Radio Paris together with some 40 solo artists and groups on Decca.
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| Materials and techniques | Machine photogravure print |
| Brief description | Record bag for a 'Salon Decca' ten-inch 78 rpm record. Machine photogravure print design, promoting a gramophone, Radio Paris and some 40 solo artists and groups on Decca. Designed and issued by Decca Records. Great Britain. 1929-ca.1934. |
| Physical description | Record bag for a Salon Decca ten-inch 78 rpm record. Machine photogravure print design promoting A Gramophone you cannot hear - you only hear the Music. The reverse of the bag has copy promoting Radio Paris together with some 40 solo artists and groups on Decca. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Lettered with issuer's name and copy promoting Decca gramaphones, Radio Paris and some 40 solo artists and groups on Decca. |
| Credit line | Given by Susan Lambert |
| Historical context | In the first decades of the twentieth century, the survival of the record industry depended on the mass-purchase of radios and more especially record players and it was therefore common to see them being promoted on bags in this way. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. p.108 (illus) |
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| Accession number | E.1877-1990 |
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| Record created | February 23, 2009 |
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