Odeon Record (England) / c. 1915
Corporate background:
Images courtesy of Canadian collector and
jazzologist Dave Dixon.
Alternate colour versions below; all
smaller images courtesy of Martín
Javier Gorosito of Argentina.
c. 1915
The logo trademark and the patent notice
reveal the sudden growth of international laws protecting the
new technology.
c. 1914
“This is a curious example,
because it is the same style but with a different banner
heading” - MG.
There is a contrast between the two
typefaces at the top: the expanded stub-serif for
‘Odeon-Werke’ and the bold condensed ‘Odeon
Record’ (the stresses on the ‘W’ of
‘Werke’ are on the wrong strokes).
c. 1914
The Art Nouveau border has been modified
here in the lower segment.
“Pressed in Brazil for Casa Edison, a
Rio de Janeiro phonograph store founded in 1902 by Fred Figner,
a Czech immigrant who had obtained a distribution license from
Thomas Elva Edison for phonographs, cylinders and cinema
products. Figner also began representing the German companies
Zonophone and Odeon in 1912. Figner’s store remained
active until about 1933. In this case, the original matrix was
from Germany, but the record was pressed and made in
Brazil.”
- MG
1916
“This label was likely manufactured
in Brazil, because of the disruption to trade caused by the
First World War” - MG
Store stickers are often seen as negatively
affecting the value of the record, but, as here, they are often
interesting designs in their own right.