STIEFEL

 

The label of the Slough (UK) branch of skincare firm Stiefel Laboratories.  Stiefel was responsible for two EPs in a series called 'A Refresher Course In Dermatology For General Practitioners', each of which contained a fifteen-minute lecture recorded by a consultant dermatologist and narrated by Robert Dougall.  They came in fold-out sleeves which advertised two Stiefel products, 'Spectra-Ban' and 'Oilatum'.  Somewhat oddly the two EPs had the same catalogue number, ECW-1002, which was taken from a series used by EMI for custom pressings.  However, only the first (1) was actually pressed by EMI; as its label indicates, the second (2) was manufactured by Lyntone, presumably as a contract pressing - that may account for the confusion in the catalogue numbers.  As the labels show, the records were made in 1973.




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