Doug Henkle wrote:
> At 01:01 PM 03-09-2010 -0500, Mike Biel wrote:
>> I would call it an "insert", "insert sheet", "insert booklet" or
>> "insert card". Recordings of all types had sheets inserted, even
>> booklets. This goes back to cylinders, 78 albums, pre-recorded tape,
>> and LPs, among others. You might make a differentiation for
>> something that acts like a picture cover inside a clear outer cover,
>> and perhaps call it a "display insert". If it unfolds, it might even
>> be an "insert poster". I've seen these things that are record size
>> with printing on one side broken into blocks, but when unfolded the
>> other side is one large poster picture. But if is part of the inside
>> of the package, it is an "insert".
>
> http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/labels/wi_labelography_ps.shtml
>
> I have finished scanning every picture sleeve and related item
> for all the Wisconsin 45's and 7" EP's in my collection. I have also
> changed the designation from "sleeve" to "insert" for all that apply.
> The back side of most of them is blank. None of them, when unfolded,
> show a complete picture, like a poster. I added a new section to the
> page with a more complete description of them and included unfolded
> scans of 11 of them,
>
> http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/labels/wi_labelography_ps.shtml#FoldedCovers
>
>
> The generic unsealed plastic sleeve around them seems to me that
> it was added to the used 45's by the store, because there is no
> printing, broken seal, or any other indication that the record company
> released it that way. With three open sides, it had to be contained
> in something when originally sold, but I don't know what that
> "package" looked like. Has anyone ever seen one of these, unopened,
> sealed in shrink wrap, or something else, or bought one in person from
> an artist or a label?
That is how they MUST be packed by the FACTORY if what they are in is
essentially a folded piece of paper with three open sides. You cannot
shrink wrap a record housed only in paper -- the paper will be
crumpled. Only a hard cardboard cover can be shrink wrapped. If you go
to record stores which stock these 45s new, these open poly sleeves are
universal. Even singles in regular paper sleeves -- 45s or 78s -- were
never sealed. Never. Why seal the polybags? They would get wrecked by
unsealing, and then the collector would have a cruddy package.
> These folded covers serve the same purpose as the front/back of
> LP jackets and 45 picture sleeves, and CD liner notes booklet front
> cover and the jewel case tray card under the CD. Since all LP's had
> jackets, I don't think anything like this was ever needed for an LP.
Nope, wrong again. The first Columbia LPs were in paper sleeves, a bit
heavier than the flimsy generic 78 sleeves, but nothing that could have
survived shrinkwrapping -- which didn't come along until the 1960s
anyway. There were some loose sealed polybags in the 50s, and this
continued occasionally in Europe in the 60s because European sleeves are
usually thinner than in the U.S. Most LPs were not sealed until the 60s.
> I find it hard to believe that these folded covers, in a format
> possibly unique to 45's, exists only from 11 different Wisconsin
> labels and 9 out-of-state labels and have never been given a universal
> nomenclature/name by any collector or record company in the past.
You don't get out to record stores much,.do you? Underground records
have occasionally been packaged this way worldwide for decades. And why
do you think that they have never been given a name before? And I do
tend to find that rock collectors and writers -- especially back in the
70s and 80s -- sometimes unnecessarily re-named things wrong out of
ignorance of the way things were done before they were born. At least
you are going at this the right way by asking the experienced.
Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
> FYI, after three months work, this went public on April 1st with
> 523 scans for 253 different record companies,
>
> http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/labels/wi_labelography.shtml
> FolkLib Index - Wisconsin Labelography
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