Nassau Record (U.S.A.) / c. 1908
Corporate background:
According to Alan Sutton & Kurt Nauck
(American Record Labels and Companies: An Encyclopedia), this
label was illegally manufactured by Leeds & Catlin (who
also manufactured the Imperial Record, among other labels) for
an unknown retailer.
The label name might relate to Nassau
County, New York; the scroll suggests a business such as
piano-roll manufacturing.
Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher
and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: A
strange image, featuring two lines of heavy block lettering
with different slants, superimposed on a finely-shaded,
delicately-drawn scroll.
The absence of patent and copyright lines
allows plenty of space for the imprinting.