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So far, no responses on my contest, so that’s still open.

In the meantime, I bring you something I had fun playing with for any Zon-o-phone fans out there. First, the label:

(Click on the image or this link for a 2320 x 2320 PNG [6.7 MB].)

And as an added bonus, here is a vectorized version of the logo from it:

(Click on the image or this link for a 3057 x 2137 PNG [5.2 MB].)

Both are now in the stock avatar gallery (‘labels’ and ‘logos’, respectively).

Enjoy.

— MordEth

Here’s another Zonophone from gramophoneshane’s collection:

Stay tuned for more labels.

— MordEth

Finally, here are a couple of images of a label graciously provided by 3victrolas that I have been wanting to share with you for quite some time (although I wanted to post them together).

First, we have the regular default circular-cut transparency:

(Click on the image or this link for a 1640 x 1640 pixel PNG of it [4.5 MB].)

As an added bonus, I also cut out the label artwork:

(Click on the image or this link for a 1369 x 1369 pixel PNG of it [3.1 MB].)

And of course, both have been added to the stock avatar gallery under ‘labels’.

Expect many more to come!

— MordEth

Here’s another quick one from the John’s YouTube channel scan collection. Kirkwood had asked me for a Perfect label for his avatar, and this was the first (and perhaps best) one of my scans that I was able to come across:

This record was issued circa late 1930.

As an added bonus, you can watch (and hear) it on YouTube, as played on John’s Columbia 163 portable, not far from where I am typing this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAsLixRlCA[/youtube]

— MordEth

I happened across another interesting label that had been posted elsewhere by Shane, and I wanted to cut it out:

I’d try to translate it, but my Chinese is even more feeble than my Japanese.

— MordEth

Here's a couple of Telefunken 78 labels for you:

One more Telefunken, since it's of a piece with the above two.

OK—thanks for the images; let’s have a Telefunken triple feature:

From Viva-Tonal:

From Wolfe:

Thanks to you guys, at the rate we’re going, we’ll eventually have a different record label avatar for every day of the week, should someone wish to cycle through them.

Keep them coming; I’ve enjoyed cutting these out (and I have quite a few of my scans left to do, as well)!

— MordEth

An early Mauve Victor "Melba" record ca.1906 I'm not sure how long these were in the catalog, but they began issuing her records on standard red labels soon enough.

A couple of HMV labels.