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ABBOTT (USA 1950s)

ACTUELLE (see PATHE)

**AFRS Transcriptions**
Victory Night / Radio Band series

AJAX (Canadian Race 1920s)

**ALADDIN (1945 - 1958)**
100 (1945 - 1947)	3000 (1947-58)	500 (misc)
	2000 (gospel)

AMERICAN RECORD COMPANY (1904-1907)

AMMOR (USA early 1940s)

ANGELOPHONE (USA, 1910s)

**ARA (mid 1940s)**
100 (pop)	4000 (western)
4500 (album sets)	5000 (ballroom?)

ARCO (1940s)

ARISTOCRAT (USA, 1940s)

ATCO (1950s)

ATLANTIC

AURORA (early 1930s Canadian Victor)

**BANNER (1921 - 1935)**
1000 - 1500 (1921 - 25)	1500 - 2000 (1925 - 27)	6000 (1927 - 29)
7000 (1928)	500 (1930)	32000 - 32500 (1931 - 32)
32500 - 33000 (1932 - 34)	33000 (1935)	2000 "Standard" (1922 - 28)

BANNER (1940s, New York Hebrew)

BELL (USA, 1920s)

**BELL (USA, 1950s, 7")**
1000 (1953-1955)	1-115 (1956-1959)

**BERLINER (very incomplete, but a start.....)**
Early Series (1888 - 1899) and Foreign	"0" Prefix seris (1899 - 1900)

BLACK AND WHITE (1940s)

BLACK PATTI

**BLACK SWAN**
2000	miscellaneous

BLU-DISC

BLUE LAKE

BLUE NOTE

**BLUEBIRD (1933 - 1942)**
2000 - 2500 (Cajun / Mexican)	2500 - 3000 (ethnic)	3000 - 3400 (Latin American)
4500 - 5000 (mixed country/race?)	5000 (1933 -34)	5500 (1934 - 35)
6000 (1935 - 36)	6500 (1936 - 37)	7000 (1937 - 38)
7500 (1938)	8000 (1938 - 40)	8500 - end (1940 -42)
10000 (1938 - 39)	10500 (1939 - 40)	11000 (1940 - 1942)
	11500 (1942)

**BROADWAY (1920s)**
1000 (1924 - 1932)	5000 (race)	8000 (country)

BRONZE

**BRUNSWICK (American)**
100-600 serices (C&W) (1926-1933)	2000 (1920-1923)	2500 (1923-1926)
3000 (1926-1927)	3500 (1927-1928)	4000 (1928-1929)
4500 (1929-1930)	5000 (1920-1922)	6000 (1930-1932)
6500 (1932-1934)	7000 (Race) (1927-1932)	7300 (1934-1935)
7500 (1935-1937)	8000 (1937-1939)
10000 (10" classical single-sided)	15000 (10" classical gold label)
20000 (12" popular)	55000 (Hawaiian) (1928-?)	80000 (Decca Re-issue)

BUDDY (mid-1920s Gennett product)

**CAMEO**
200 - 500 (1922 - 1924)	500 - 1000 (1924 - 1926)	1000 - 1300 (1926 - 1927)

**CAPITOL**
100-500 (1942-1948)	15000	500-1000 (1948-1950)
1000 - 1500 (1950-1951)	1500-2000 (1951-1952) note 1600s are reissues	2000-2500 (1952-1953)
2500-3000 (1953-1954)		10000 (album sets)
20000 (album sets)	40000 (Americana)	48000 (American album sets)
52000 (ethnic)	60000 (jazz)	70000 (R&B)

CASTLE (1944 - 1950, Oregon, USA)

CAT

**CHALLENGE (1920s by Sears)**
100-500	500-1000

**CHAMPION (by Gennett and Decca)**
15000 - 15500	15500 - 16000	16000 - 16500
16500 - end	40100 (Spanish by Gennett)
50000 (race/hot dance by Decca)	40000 (popular by Decca)	45000 (country by Decca)

CHANCE

CHECKER

CHESS

**CLARION (by Columbia)**
5000 (General series 1930 - 1932)	Special Series (long play, double track, childrens)

CLOVER (1920s by Emerson/Grey Gull)

CLUB 51

**COLUMBIA (USA)**
A 1 to A 499 (1908)	A500 (1908 - 1911)	A1000 (1911 - 1913)
A1500 (1914 - 1916)	A2000 (1916 - 1917)	A2500 (1917 - 1920)
A3000 (1920 - 1921)	A3500 to A4001 (1921-1923)	A5000 (12") (1908-1913)
A5500 (12") (1913 - 1917)	A6000 to A6233 (12") (1917 - 1922)	A7500 (12"?)
1D to 499D (1923-1925)	500D (1925-1927)	1000D (1927-1928)
1500D (1928-1929)	2000D (1929-1931)	2500D (1931-1934)
3000D (1935-1937)	13000D (race) (1923)	14000D (race) (1923-1933)
15000D (C&W) (1924-1932)	40000D (Hawaiian) (1929-1931)
20000 (C&W) (1945-1947)	20500 (C&W) (1947-1952)	21000 (C&W) (1952-1953)
30000 (race) (1945-1951)	35200 (1939-1940)	35500 (1940-1941)
36000 (1941)	36500 (1942-1946)	37000 (1946-1947)
37500 (1947)	38000 (1947-1949)	38500 (1949-1950)
39000 (1950-1952)	39500 (1952-1953)	40000 (1953-1955)
40500 (1955-1957)	41000 (1957-1960)	ALBUM SETS

COMMODORE (Music Shop)

**CONQUEROR (1928 - 1941)**
7000 - 7500 (1928-30)	7500 - 8000 (1930 - 32)
8000 - 8500 (1932 - 35)	8500 - 9000 (1935 - 38)
9000 - 9500 (1938 - 40)	9500 to end (1940 - 41)

COSMO (late 40s USA)

CROWN (early 30s USA)

DECATUR (USA, re-issue)

**DECCA (American)**
100-500 (1934-35)	500-1000 (1935-36)	1000-1500 (1936-37)
1500-2000 (1937-38)	2000-2500 (1938-39)	2500-3000 (1939-40)
3000-3500 (1940)	3500-4000 (1940-1941)	4000-4500 (1941-1944)
5000-5500 (C&W) (1934-37)	5500-6000 (C&W) (1937-41)	6000-6112 (C&W) (1941-45)
7000-7500 (R&B) (1934-38)	7500-7910 (R&B) (1938-42)	8500-8672 (Sepia) (1940-45)
10000 (Mexican) (1936-42)	11000 (reissue)	12000 (Irish/Celtic)
14000 (Scotch)	14500 (Faith)	15000 (12")
17000 (Cajun/Acadian)	17200 (Carribean)	18000-18500 (pop) (1939-42)
18500-19000 (pop) (1942-46)	19000 (Hawaiian) (hightly incomplete)	21000 (Spanish/Hispanic)
23000 - 23500 (1936 - 1946)	23500-24000 (1946-47)	24000-24500 (1942-47)
24500-25000 (1947-50)	25000-25500 (1938-40)	27000-27500 (1950-51)
27500-28000 (1951-52)	28000-28500 (1947-52)	28500-29000 (1952-54?)
29000-29500(1954-55?)	29000 (12" classical, literature, pops, etc)	29500-30000 (1955-57?)
40000 (Collector's)	46000 (Country)	48000 (R&B)

DELTA (Jackson, MS)

**DeLuxe (USA)**
5000 series

DIAL (late 40s, USA)
DISC (mid 40s, USA)
DISCOVERY (late 40s - early 50s, USA)

**DOMINO (1923 - ca 1933)**
0100 - 0438 (1923-1924)	3439 - 3999 (1924 - 1927)	4000 - 4499 (1927 - 1930(?)
	4500 - end (ca 1930 - 1933)

DUKE (1950s, USA)
ELITE (early 40's)

**EMERSON (1915 - 1926)**
300 (6" vertical series 1915)	500, 5000 series (5", 6" single-sided 1915-1917)	700, 7000 series (7" double sided 1915-1919)
900, 9000 series (9" popular 1917-1919)	2000 series (classical 1919-21?)	1000, 10000 series (10" popular 1919-1921)
10500 (10" popular 1921-25)	3000 (10" popular 1926-27)	1200, 12000 series (Italian)
	19000 (German)

FEDERAL (early 20's)

FLEXO / NEW FLEXO / WARNER / TITAN (USA mid 20s - early 30s)

**4-Star (USA)**
P-Series	X-Series

FORTUNE (USA)

**FREEDOM (USA, 1950s)**
1500 (R&B)	5000 (Country)

**GENNETT (1920 - 1930)**
2500 Series (12")	2600, 2700, 2800 series (Classical / Operatic)	3000 Series (1925 - 1926)
4500-4999 (1919-22)	5000-5499 (1922-24)	5500 - 5800 (1924-26, including ethnic)
6000-6500 (1926-28)	6500-6999 (1928-29)	7000-7350 (1929-30)
	9000 Series ("Standard")	10000

GLORY (USA)
GOOD TIME JAZZ (USA)
GOODSON (late 20's British)

**GREY GULL (1920 - 1930)**
1000 - 1500 (Dance 1920-27)	1500-1900 (Dance 1927-30)	2000 series (Vocal 1920-30)
4000 Series ("Standard")	7000 Series	8000 Series
	100 Series (Childrens)

GROOVE (1950s, USA)
GUILD (late 40's USA)
HARLEM (mid 50's USA)

**HARMONY (1925 - 1932, 1949)**
1-H to 499-H (1925 - 28)	500-H to 999-H (1928 - 30)
1000-H to end (1930 - 32)	Ha 1000 (1949)
6000-H / 6500-H

Hi-Q (USA)

**HIT (early 40s, USA)**
7000 Series (pop)	8000 (Classical, then ?)

HOLLYWOOD (Mid 1920s)

H.R.S (Hot Record Society)

HY-TONE (USA 40s)

**IMPERIAL (U.S., 1940s-50s)**
100 (Mexican)	500 (Mexican cont'd)	1000 (Folk Dance)
	5000 - 5500 popular

JADE (early 50's USA)
JAX (early 50's USA)

JAZZ MAN (40's - 50's USA)

**JEWEL (U.S., 1927-31)**
5000 - 5499 (1927 - 1929)	5500 - 5999 (1929 - 1930)	6000 - end (1930 - 1931)

J.O.B. (USA, 1950s)

JUKE BOX (USA, 1940s)

JVB (USA, 1950s)

**KEYSTONE (KBS) Transcriptions**
1 - 299	500-1000

**KING (USA)**
500 - 1000 (Hillbilly)	1000 - 1500 (Hillbilly Cnt'd)	4175 - 4500 (Rhythm/Blues)
4500-5000 (R&B cont'd)	5000	15000 (popular)

KING JAZZ (USA, 1940s)

KINGSPORT (USA, 1950s)

LASSO (USA, late 1940s)

LEEDS (Gold foil single-sided)

**LEEDS & CATLIN cylinders (ca 1903)**
numbers 1-1999	numbers 2000 - 9999

LIBERTY (USA, late 1940s)

**LINCOLN (1923-1930)**
2000 (1923 - 1926)	2500 (1926-1928)	3000 (1928-1930)

LIONEL (6" 78rpm USA, ca 1962)

**MACY'S (USA)**
100 (Western)	5000 (R&B)

**MADISON (USA 1920s)**
1600	1900	50000, 5000, 6000

MAJESTIC (USA, 1940s)

MANOR (USA, 1940s)

MASTER (USA, 1930s)

MASTER (USA, 1940s, unrelated to above)

MEDALLION (USA 1920s)

**MELOTONE (1930-1938)**
12000 (1930-1932)	12500 (1932-1934)	13000 (1934-1935)
1935 "dated" issues	1936 "dated" issues	1937 "dated" issues
	1938 "dated" issues

**MERCURY**
1000 (1945-1947)	2000 (1945-47)	3000 (1946-1947)
5000-5500 (1946-1950)	5500-6000 (1950-1952)	6000 (country/western)
7000 (children's)	8000 (rhythm)	8900 (jazz)
11000 (Jazz at Philharmonic)	70000 (1952-1960)	89000 (jazz continued)

MERITT (USA, 1920s)

**MGM (1940s - 1950s)**
10000 - 10500	10500 - 11000	11000 - 11500
11500 - 12000	30000 - 30500	30500 - end

MIRACLE (USA, 1940s)

MITCHELL (USA, 1920s)

**MONTGOMERY WARD**
1000 (early 30s from Crown)	4000 (1932-34)	4500 (1934-1936)
6000 (light classical)	7000 (1936-1938)	7500 (1938-1939)
8000 (1939)	8500 (1939-1940)	10000 (1940 from Varsity)

MORGAN (USA, 1950s)

**MUSICRAFT (1936-1948)**
200-500 series (popular)	1000 series (classical)	5000 series (childrens)
15000 series

NATIONAL (USA, 1940s)

NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS (1920s)

NEW PHONIC (1920s)
NORDSKOG (1920s)
ODEON (U.S., early 30's by Columbia)

**OKEH (1918-1935)**
1000 series (vertical) (1918-1919)	4000 (1919-1921)	4500 (1921-1923)
8000 (race series) (1923 - 1927)	8500 (race series) (1927 - 1935)	40000 (1923-1925)
40500 (1925-1928)	41000 (1928-1931)	41500 (1931-1935)
	45000 (Country)

**OKEH (CBS) (1940-1957)**
see Vocalion for prior issues in series	5600 (1940-1941)	6000 (1941)
6500 (1941 - 1945)	6800 (1951 - 1957)	16000 (ethnic)
	18000 (country, 1950s)

OLD SWING MASTER (USA, 1940s)

**ORIOLE (U.S.A)**
100 (1923 - 1925)	500 (1925 - 1927)	1000 (1927 - 1929 )
1500 (1929 - 1930)	2000 (1930 - 1932)	2500 (1932 - 1934)
	3000 (1934 - 1935)

**OXFORD (U.S.A, 1906-1916)**
1-1000 (by Columbia, Zonophone)	1000-2000 (by Columbia, Zonophone)

**PARAMOUNT**
3000 (country, 1927 - 1932)	20000 (1919 - 26)	33000 (1919 - 22)
12000 (race: 1922 - 27)	12500 (race: 1927 - 31)	13000 (race: 1931 - 32)

PARLOPHONE (U.S., early 1930s by Columbia)

PAR-O-KET (U.S., 7" Vertical)

PARROT (U.S., 1950s)

**PATHE / ACTUELLE (U.S.)**
10000 (10.5" vertical 1915 - 1916)	10100* (1921 - 1928)	20000* (1916 - 1921)
20500* (1921 - 1929)	22000* (1916 - 1921)	25000* (1917 - 1929)
29000 (11.5" Vertical 1917 - 1919)	30000 (11.5" Vertical 1915 - 1917)	32000 (10" Lateral 1923 - 1930)
35000 (11.5" Vertical 1916 - 1917)	36000 (10" Lateral 1923 - 1926)	36500 (10" Lateral 1926 - 1930)
40000 (11.5" Vertical 1915 - 1921)	54000 (11.5" Single-sided)

* files contain data for both lateral and vertical discs. Lateral discs (up to 1926) have a "0" prefix not shown in file. I would like to acknowledge Pathé Records and Phonographs in America, 1914 - 1922 by George A. Copeland and Ronald Dethlefson, which was invaluable in helping me make sense of the listings

**PEACOCK (1950s U.S.A)**
500 / 800	1500	1700 (Gospel)

**PERFECT (U.S.A)**
100 ("race" 1926 - 1934)	11000 (1922 - 1932)	11500 (1922 - 1931)
12000 (1922 - 1928)	12500 (1928 - 1934)	13000 (1934 - 1935)
14000 (1922 - 1925)	14500 (1925 - 1928)	15000 (1928 - 1931)
15500 (1931 - 1934)	1 6000 (1934 - 1935)

**POLYDOR (France)**
	800 "le petit"

POLYGON (British, 1950s)

PREMIUM (USA)

**PURITAN (1920s U.S.A)**
	11000 (1925 - 1927)

QRS (Cova)

QUEEN (USA, 1940s)

RAINBOW (USA, 1920s)

**RCA Victor**
	15-1000
20-1500	20-2000	20-2500
20-3000	20-3500	20-4000
20-4500	20-5000	20-5500
20-6000	20-6500	20-7000
25-5000 (Jewish)	For Previous issues, see Victor

RED RAVEN (USA, children's)

**REGAL**
900 (1921)	9100 (1921 - 1923)	9500 (1923 - 1926)
8000 (1926 - 1928)	8500 (1928 - 1930)	10000 (1930 - 1931)

RED ROBIN (1950s, USA)

REGIS (USA, 1940s)

**ROMEO**
200 (1926 - 1927)	500 (1927 - 1929)	1000 (1929 - 1930)
1500 (1930 - 1932)	2000 (1932 - 1935)

ROCKIN' (USA)

RONNEX (Belgian, 1950s)

**ROYALE**
	1700

SABRE (USA)

**SAVOY (USA)**
100 series	500 - 1000 (jazz - bebop)	1100 series
1500 series	4000 series (gospel)	4500 series
	5500 series

SENSATION (USA)

SESSION (USA, 1940s)

SIGNATURE (USA)

**SILVERTONE (1920's, for Sears)**
2000 (mostly by Federal)	3000	3500 (by NYRL)
3800 (by Gennett)	4000 (Gennett cont'd)	5000 (early 20s)
5000 (later 20s)	8000

SILVERTONE RECORD CLUB (1940s)

SITTIN' IN WITH / SITTIN' IN

SPECIAL EDITIONS (USA, 1940s by Columbia)

SPECIALTY (USA, 1940s-50s)

STAFF (USA, c. 1948)

**STAR (ca 1907-1910, U.S.A)**
1 - 60 (Columbia sourced)	1200 - 6100 (block numbers)

STARR Gennett (Canadian, 1920s)

STATES (1950s)

STATESMEN (USA, 1950s)

SUNBEAM (USA, 1946-47)

SUNRISE (USA, 1930s by Victor)

SUNRISE (USA, 1940s)

SUNSET (Mid 1920s)

SUNSHINE (Early 1920s)

SUPER DISC (late 1940s)

SUPERIOR (1920s, by Gennett)

SUPERTONE (1920s by Columbia for Straus & Schram)

**SUPERTONE (for Sears)**
2000 (by Brunswick/Vocalion)	9000 (by Gennett)	9500 (Gennett cont'd)

SWING (France)

TENNESSEE (USA)

TIMELY TUNES (USA)

TRIANGLE (Early 1920s)

TOP TEN (1940s)

UNITED (1950s)

VARIETY (1930s)

**VARSITY (USRC)**
3000 (Hispanic)	5000 (from Crown)	6000 (race)
7000 (international)	8000 (pop)

VARSITY (Wright)

VAUGHAN (1920s)

VEE JAY (1950s)

VICTOR (American)
4000 (single-sided)	5000 (single sided)
16000 (1908-1910)	16500 (1910-1911)	17000 (1911-1913)
17500 (1913-1916)	18000 (1916-1918)	18500 (1918-1922)
19000 (1922-1924)	19500 (1924-1926)	20000 (1926-1927)
20500 (1927)	21000 (1927-1928)	21500 (1928-1929)
22000 (1929-1930)	22500 (1930-1932)	23000 series (hot) (1930-1934)
23500 series (country)	24000 (1932-1933)	24500 (1933-1935)
25000 (1935-1936)	25500 (1936-1938)	26000 (1938-1940)
26500 (1940)	27000 (1940-1941)	27500 (1941-1942)
35000 (12", 1908-1915)	35500 (12", 1915-1929)	36000 series (12", to end)
64000 10" Red Seal	70000 12" Purple	74000 12" Red Sea l
87000 10" Red Seal	88000 12" Red Seal	89000 12" Red Seal
1000-1500 10" Red Seal	V-38000 series (race) (1928-1930)	V-40000 series (C&W) (1928-1930)
	(also see Bluebird and RCA Victor)

VOCALION
14000 (1919-1923)	14500 (1923-1925)	15000 (1925-1926)
15500 (1926-1933)	25000 (1933)	2500 (1933-1935)
3000 (1935-1937)	3500 (1937-1938)	4000 (1938)
4500 (1938 - 1939)	5000 (1939-1940)	5500 (1940)
(series continues as OKeh)
1000 (race) (1926 - 1930)	1500 (race) (1930 - 1932)	5000 (country) (1926 - 1933)
	13000 (Yiddish)

YOUNGSTER (6" by Grey Gull)

ZONOPHONE (USA 1899 - 1912)
Etched Labels	7" and 9" Paper labels	10" single side
12" single side		10" double-side

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