
The lettering credited the Globe Record Company, and made no mention of Columbia ( figure 1). These primitive discs appear to have been on sale for only a month or so, beginning about October 1901. The first Climax records did not have paper labels, instead information appeared in embossed (raised) lettering on the shellac itself. My thanks to them for sharing their preliminary findings. A complete history of Columbia labels could fill a book, as indeed it has with the recent work by collectors Michael Sherman and Kurt Nauck (see Bibliography).


Columbia Master Book, Volume I, Tim Brooks, ed.įollowing is a brief overview of the principal label styles used by Columbia between 19.
