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The Collector’s Guide to Gramophone Company Record Labels 1898 - 1925
Howard Friedman

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One finds embossed Recording Angel trademarks on early HMV Monarch and HMV Concert records with either single or double catalog numbers. It has rarely been observed on His Master’s Voice labels (see figure on the left below).

In March 1924 the Gramophone Company decided to issue almost all of their International Celebrity Artists recordings on double-sided discs. These all had red labels, with the design described in the Outline below under V.A1.7. and V.A1.8. The record numbers began with DA 100 and DB 100 for 10- and 12-inch discs, respectively.

Embossed Angel logo at bottom
Camden, April 1912
Angel logo with Trade and Mark at bottom
Berlin September 1905

The next listing was the "Catalogue No. 2 – Records of Unique and Historical Interest." The discs listed in this catalog bore labels, shown below, with the phrase THIS RECORD IS LISTED IN CATALOGUE NO. 2 WHICH CONTAINS RECORDS OF UNIQUE AND HISTORICAL INTEREST NOT INCLUDED IN GENERAL RECORD CATALOGUE in two arcs above a smaller framed trademark.

Listed Catalogue No. 2

"Historical Record See British Record Catalogue"

 

Chinese labels

The stickers shown above were placed over the Dog trademark, so that they could be sold as Gramophone Company records in the Western hemisphere.

The four labels below were printed in the Aussig pressing plant in Czechoslovakia north of Prague, and have the following phrase in an arc above the Cupid: "Hergestellt von der Oesterr. Grammophon-Gesellschaft m. b. H., Aussig a E." The lower record was recorded on 21 January 1911, and reissued from the Aussig plant, which was built in 1926, following the end of the acoustical recording era. The stamper was embossed with the Recording Angel trademark at the bottom edge of the label. A number of Victor recordings seem to have been pressed at this plant, including at least one Caruso, matrix number A3103, with a Schallplatte "Grammophon" label as shown above.

III.F.1.d.1.
Hungarian
III.F.1.d.2.
Rumanian
Cupid trademark in color
1926 reissue of 1906 recording
recorded in Berlin, January 21, 1911
   


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