Supreme. 1925-29. This is one of the Grey Gull brands.
Symphonola. 1919-22. Originally produced by Emerson for Larkin Company of Buffalo, NY, which this is an example. This is a 9" record, which dates it either 1919 or 1920, when they went to 10" records.
Silvertone. 1916-1928. Revived shortly in early 1940's and again briefly around 1950. The label was produced for Sears, Roebuck & Company. Originally as a single sided record to replace the Oxford label and produced by Columbia. Later, double sided labels were produced by numerous manufacturers. Below are 4 varieties that I own. Far left is the single sided label from 1916-17 produced by Columbia. Next is the blue label from about 1920, produced by Federal and is double sided. The tan label is the more popular one through the 20s and could have been produced by a wide variety of manufacturers depending on catalog number. The final example is the vinylite 1950 Silvertone Record Club produced by Mercury.
Standard Disc Record. Standard Talking Machine Co., Chicago, Ill. 1905-1917. Standard was pressed by Columbia and is likely the best selling of the non-standard spindle hole sized records. The larger spindle hole (and in some cases, like Busy-Bee, a lug in addition to the spindle hole) was a marketing scheme to sell records. Machines with odd sized spindle holes were often sold cheaply or even given away but people were forced to purchase only the records that fit that machine. The records were where the profits were. The first three examples here are single sided. The last two are double sided. In the first example note the green sticker. It says "Copyrighted Record Additional 2c." This was a result of the copyright act of 1909. This added 2 cents to the price of the record and the copyright owner was paid 2c for every record sold. It also assured buyers they were getting the latest hits rather than some old public domain song.
