Little Marvel - Ten Little Nigger Boys/Dickory Dickory Dock 6" super rare.
  £   35
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Jan 18, 2018 Sold Date
Dec 28, 2017 Start Date
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Here we have a Little Marvel - Ten Little Nigger Boys / Dickory Dickory Dock and Boys and Girls Come Out To Play, super rare. Condition is not really the issue it is all about the subject matter. Record is made from shellac and is 6" in diameter.

Little Marvel Records (1921-1928)

The Little Marvel logo from the gramophone record of the same name, which was sold in Woolworth's from 1921 to 1928

The Woolworths Diamond W motif, which was embedded on the label of Little Marvel records

Little Marvel Gramophone Records like this one were produced for F. W. Woolworth by the Vocalion Gramophone Record Company between 1921 and 1928

To promote competition and get the best deal for customers, the Woolworth Buyer signed up two record suppliers. Crystallte developed discs under the Mimosa label, while the Vocalion Gramophone Record Company established the Little Marvel label exclusively for the High Street retailer. Vocalion's roots were in the USA, where it was well established, while the UK was a new market. The 'Little Marvels' were launched on trial in 1921, with the range extending into all stores from 1923 onwards. The labels featured the redfront chain's "Diamond W" motif.

The tiny records were intended to play at 80 revolutions per minute, matching the speed a gramophone would actually be going when playing the inner grooves of a larger 78rpm disc. They featured a bought-out wholly owned track on one side and a halfpenny royalty track on the other, and rarely named the performing artist. To the frustration of collectors today, the early discs did not carry catalogue numbers. Of the two labels Little Marvel proved the more popular partly because of the mix of titles carried. If anything the recording quality was not quite as good as Mimosa but this was balanced by better titles and more up-tempo songs. Little Marvel discs were offered for sixpence right through until 1928. Many records are still in circulation, and many of today's great grandparents bought their first gramophone record on the Little Marvel label - and kept it for old time's sake.


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