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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Spottswood" <[log in to unmask]> > Sutton/Nauck's American Record Labels and Companies (Mainspring, 2000) > cites two short-lived Majestic labels, one each from 1916/7 and 1923. The > former was a product of the Majestic Talkling Machine Company. > The 1916 version is an 8" h&d disc with embossed "labels" (I have a couple of these); the later one is, IIRC, a short-lived label pressed by one of the later incarnations of Olympic. It's also worth noting that the first Majestic radios, which were fairly impressive sets for their time, were produced by the Grigsby-Grunow Company...the firm that bought Columbia after the formation of EMI in Britain forced its sale, and went under two years later. Columbia would be sold by those receivers for $70,000 to ARC... Steven C. Barr