Special-Rekord (Austria) / c. 1913
Corporate background:
Special thanks to Veljko Lipovscak for
supplying the following info:
“Line 1: Benjamin Ipavec (1829-1908)
was a Slovenian composer and director. Line 2: ‘Bodi
zdrava domovina’ means ‘Save the Homeland’ in
the Slovenian language; a choral song. Line 3: Osmeropev
‘Glasbena Matica’ refers to a vocal octette of the
cultural association Glasbena Matica, from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
“Slovenia belonged to the
Austrian-Hungarian Empire until 1918. All the recordings for
the Austrian-Hungarian Empire were produced only in Austria
because of high import customs.”
Design: A
charming vignette of a barefooted maid, her flower-garlanded
hair flying as she twirls to the tune played by a shepherd boy
on his twin pipes of Pan.
He is seated on an embankment, his crook
leaning against a tree-trunk.
The upper segment, carrying the
illustration, is draped over the spindle-hole and occupies
rather more than half the label area.