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The Collector’s Guide to Gramophone Company Record Labels 1898 - 1925
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The Collector’s Guide to

Gramophone Company Record Labels

1898 - 1925
Table of Contents
1. Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Background
            The Recording Engineers
            Manufacturing Methods
            Notes on Matrix and Catalog Numbers
            Catalog Numbers
2. Pre-Paper or Berliner Labels
3. Paper Labels
            Basic Label Designs
            Label Positions
            Label Sizes
            Label Colours
4. Font and Size Variations
            The Red Label Celebrity Series
5. The Recording Angel Trademark
            The Gramophone & Typewriter Period
            Victor Import Labels
            The Gramophone Company or Pre-DOG Period
6. "His Master’s Voice" Trademark
            HMV Logos
7. The Caruso Labels
8. Celebrity Labels
            Special Labels
9. Foreign Language Labels
            Far East Recordings and Labels
            Indian Labels and Recordings
            Japanese Recordings
            Siamese Labels and Recordings
            Later Indian Recordings
10.      Russian Recordings 1899 – 1914
11.      Scandinavian Recordings and Labels
           French Recordings and Labels
           Spanish and French HMV Labels
           Arabic Recordings
12. Double-Sided Issues
             The Opera Discs
13. Zonophone Labels
14. Recording Locations
Epilogue
Outline of Label Varieties
Bibliography
See also Matrix and Catalog Numbers in G&S Discography
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