Amour Gramophone Record (Czarist Russia) /
c. 1914
Corporate background:
The Gramophone, Typewriter and Sister
Companies of London (GT&S), who produced this record for
the Russian market, was originally the European subsidiary of
industry pioneer Emil Berliner, who in 1900 had sold his U.S.
business to Eldridge Johnson of Victor.
As noted in English around the spindle
hole, the cherub scribing the groove on a record is a
registered trade mark (of GT&S).
Label scan courtesy of U.K. musicologist
and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: A
beautiful lithographic print job, the delicate shading being
achieved by way of hand-stippled dots.
The label name, arranged around the upper
segment in Roman lettering, is visually well balanced, with the
word ‘Gramophone’ being reversed out over a music
staff.