American VV XVI equivalent in Czech lands in 1912

[epigramophone]

This record has always puzzled me. It was clearly manufactured by Electrola but has been over-labelled as a Gramola. The question is, why?

[Valecnik]

This record has always puzzled me. It was clearly manufactured by Electrola but has been over-labelled as a Gramola. The question is, why?

I can only speculate. Perhaps in the 20's or 30s the "Gramola" label was more acceptable in Czechoslovakia than "Electrola"? Still it's so obviously of German manufacture with a label sloppily pasted over.

[Starkton]

The first major Gramophone dealer in Prague was a Mr. Fuchs [...].

Very interesting! How did you find that information? Anything more about it you could share?

Diego Fuchs bought his first gramophones in autumn 1900 in Vienna and began trading soon after.

In October 1902 he opened a small retail shop in Prague.

In 1904 he became official dealer in Deutsche Grammophon A.G. products and exclusive distributor for the International Talking Machine Co.'s Odeon records in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.

In 1905 he came wholesaler for D.G.A.G. and rented a much larger shop at Wenzelsplatz, Prague.

In 1908 he separated from D.G.A.G., bringing legal action against them relating to the conical tone arm patent, and began trading his own goods under the designation "Patria". His trademark involved a fox sitting in front of a horn gramophone.