Star Record (U.S.A.) / c. 1910
Corporate background:
Originally, Star records were
produced by rogue manufacturers Ellsworth Hawthorne and Horace
Sheble, one-time Edison distributors, whose first output
contravening the Victor/Columbia patents was the Clarion label,
followed by Star in 1907.
After their bankruptcy in mid-1909,
Columbia absorbed the operation, continuing to issue Star
Records under the Hawthorne & Sheble name (as here) for a
short time.
Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher
and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: The same
image as the previous label, but the printing is simplified to
one colour, the type and logos being reversed out of a solid
blue background, without outlines.