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----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <[log in to unmask]> > It was from around 1910-12.If you recall,the Oxford label was introduced in 1909. > 1906, actually...when it replaced the Harvard label on both cylinders and discs sold by Sears & Roebuck. Sometime after 1908, Oxford was in turn replaced by Silvertone...which lasted until mid-1916, when Columbia temporarily quit pressing client labels, and Sears catalogs temporarily offered only Columbia records. Oxford was sourced from Columbia...Victor (via Zonophone)...and, possibly, the American Record Company. Silvertone reappeared in late 1919, now pressed by Federal (and sharing their catalog-number sequence). In 1924, Federal was acquired by Emerson, who continued the Federal matrix-number sequence for a few months...and Sears began using just about every record company (except Victor) as a source for Silvertone discs. From c.1930 onward, Sears dropped their bewildering array of labels, keeping only Conqueror (pressed by ARC and then CBS). Sometime in 1942, as a result of a change in record-buying (from "records of a specific song" to "records of a specific song as performed by a specific artist"...!) Sears dropped Conqueror, and listed only major-label "hit" records and albums. The Silvertone name briefly reappeared in the guise of "Silvertone Record Club" in 1946, using discs pressed by a so-far-unknown Chicago source...but thereafter joined the list of "forgotten record labels"... Steven C. Barr