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(above) Roll Along, Kentucky Moon
Montana Slim 78rpm record Regal Zonophone MR-3209
(below) The Golden Lariat

Library stock number A139

Regal Zonophone MR-3209
Matrix OA 028907

Royalty stamps printed on the record labels
Montana Slim
Zonophone MR-3209 (England)

Royalty Stamps
Small stamps on record labels
Stamps on Recordings by Adam Miller
"...often the record label had printed upon it a facsimile of a stamp..."
The stamps waned in popularity rapidly after 1930, and were
almost completely gone by 1940. In Australia, however, several
companies persisted into the 1950s and even the 1960s.

Raised letters D and T
pressed into the record
near the spindle hole

Regal Zonophone MR-3209
Label diameter: 3 inches (7.5cm)
Record diameter: 9 7/8 inches (25.1cm)
Playing speed: 77.92 revolutions per minute
The standard playing speed for a "78rpm" record was 78.26rpm in Canada
and the United States, where the electric power systems operate at 60Hz.
In Great Britain (this Regal Zonophone record was made in England)
the electric power system operates at 50Hz, and the standard
playing speed for a 78rpm record was 77.92rpm.

78rpm record
...(the exact speed was 78.26rpm for 60Hz power and 77.92rpm for 50Hz power)...

Bill's 78rpm Beginner's Page
...The speed of 78rpm was not standardised until the widespread use of electricity (supplied by central electric power systems) during the 1930s. The actual speeds were standardised at 78.26rpm in the US and 77.92rpm in the UK; the differences being due to the use of constant speed (synchronous) motors which were locked to the commercial electric power frequency...

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