The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

One point that I did not see addressed above was WHY the "His Master's Voice" image was added to the grooves on the record in the first image. This was an anti-piracy move, so that a pirate could not just plate a Berliner disc and issue his own pressings with a paper label and claim it as the product of another company. The only way to pirate this one was by doing an acoustical dub, and I think you know what quality that would leave with the equipment available in that day.

Actualy it states that in the original ad that was posted.What was not meantioned was that there was a company in Montreal at the time called the "Gramophone Cigar Co.".Could they have been making copies????.

Actualy,it is stated in the original ad I posted.One of the suspected culprits of this pirating was a company in Montreal called the Gramophone Cigar Co.