olympic.record

Corporate background:

Unknown (have info? Please send to info.re.78s@shaw.ca).

The use of the word ‘Record,’ ‘Mr.’ for the artist name and ‘Warranted English Made’ all suggest that the record dates from around the WWI era (the word ‘Record’ disappeared from almost all labels after WWI; the formal addresses ‘Mr.’ and ‘Miss’ are never found on records from the 1920s; and the ‘Warranted’ line appears because during wartime, patriotic-minded Britons were encouraged to buy only British-made items).

The first of the modern Olympic Games took place in 1896; the label name may have been based on its growing popularity.


	Olympic Record (England) / c. 1918




	Corporate background: Unknown (have info? Please send to info.re.78s@shaw.ca). The use of the word ‘Record,’ ‘Mr.’ for the artist name and ‘Warranted English Made’ all suggest that the record dates from around the WWI era (the word ‘Record’ disappeared from almost all labels after WWI; the formal addresses ‘Mr.’ and ‘Miss’ are never found on records from the 1920s; and the ‘Warranted’ line appears because during wartime, patriotic-minded Britons were encouraged to buy only British-made items). The first of the modern Olympic Games took place in 1896; the label name may have been based on its growing popularity.				Design: A nice piece of connected-script brush lettering for the label name. Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.




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