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Replicating Angelus Melodant-Artistyle Labels
By John Phillips

Hi everyone.  Fairly new MMD member Paul Mann and I have discovered
that we are both interested in trying to recreate the roll box labels
that are found on U.S. manufactured Angelus Melodant-Artistyle labels.

Tidying up a scan of the wavy green line that acts as the label border
is no problem.  The Gothic-looking Angelus M-A script is tedious but
straightforward to clean up too.  But behind all the printing on the
label is a pale green Wilcox and White logo (although they wouldn't
have called it that) of great complexity.

If all else fails I will scan all the roll labels that I have of this
type, because the overprinting doesn't always cover the same parts of
the logo, and try to put the logo together from all the different
little bits.  Then I can cover it over again with black printing on
my own labels.  I believe Paul has similar ideas.

However, it occurs to me that someone out there may have a copy of
the W & W emblem that is not heavily overprinted.  If so, I'd be very
grateful for an e-mailed scan of it or a mailed photocopy and I reckon
Paul would too. It could save us many hours of tedium.  (I suppose not
being so fanatical would too.)

Here's hoping,

John Phillips in Hobart, Tasmania.


(Message sent Mon 17 Aug 1998, 02:34:16 GMT, from time zone GMT+1000.)

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