Tony Taurins

Australian vinyl cutting engineer.
Can be identified by a △ or Δ, in combination with MX numbers. Most often resembles an equalateral triangle whether in machine stamped form or hand etched form
In such case please use Lacquer Cut By [Runout Etching Δ] - Tony Taurins
Do not confuse with ᐂ for being cut at Australian studio label 368979

Antonijs (Tony) Taurins was born in Latvia on 7 November 1914 and immigrated to Australia in early 1949. He first worked on the Snowy Mountains Scheme, driving a bull-dozer.
Sometime in the 60's he joined the label 106824 (from 1977 label 157083) and worked in the label 1070452 vinyl plant. He started as their boiler operator and then moved through operating the presses, working in the galvanic section and finally cutting records in the mastering section. He was responsible for the number one cutting room which ran a Westrex 3D solid state driven cutter.
The Artarmon vinyl production plant closed its doors on the 28th of June 1991, followed early 1993 by the mastering services. Apparently Taurins gave up mastering, too, and became the boiler operator at Sydney's North Shore Hospital.

Tony died on 19 December 1999 in Sydney.