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A very scarce label dating from about 1909, this was a 10½" record which was pressed from Edison Bell's "Bell Disc" masters.
Catalogue numbers were in A-1  and B-1 series. Not enough records have been found to ascertain if this was actually one series with differnt prefixes depending on the type of music.
It is not certain who these records were made for, but possibly The Premier Talking Macine Stores in Vicarage Lane, Stratford (London?).
As with other Edison Bell "clones" of this period, they are so scarce one wonders what was actually going on!

Thanks to Bill Dean-Myatt for the label scan.

 

Please e-mail me if you can help me fill in the gaps in any of these series.

My thanks to Frank Andrews and Bill Dean-Myatt for starting off this listing.

Page last updated on: May 10, 2018

Cat No Matrix Title Labelled Artists Source
A-1        
A-2        
A-3        
A-4        
A-5        
A-6        
A-7        
A-8        
A-9        
A-10 2005
2108		 23rd Regiment, march
Waltz Dream, selection		 Royal Military Band (= London Regimental Band) Bell 14
Bell 17
A-11        
A-12        
A-13        
A-14        
A-15        
A-16        
A-17        
A-18        
A-19        
A-20        
         
A-64 2711 Old Comrades (march) The British Imperial Guards Bell 306

 

Cat No Matrix Title Labelled Artists Source
B-1        
B-2        
B-3        
B-4        
B-5        
B-6        
B-7        
B-8        
B-9        
B-10        
B-11        
B-12        
B-13        
B-14        
B-15        
B-16        
B-17        
B-18        
B-19        
B-20        
B-21        
B-22        
B-23        
B-24        
B-25        
B-26        
B-27 2266 For You Frank Reeves (baritone) (= Arthur Grover) Bell 321
B-28        
B-29        
B-30        
Excellent.