Zonophone Salon Orchestra 78 rpm Zonophone record label “Because” recorded Oct. 1929
Zonophone (early on also rendered as Zon-O-Phone) was a record label founded in 1899 in Camden, New Jersey, by Frank Seaman. The Zonophone name was not that of the company, but was applied to the records and machines sold by Seaman from 1899–1900 to 1903. After a complicated patent legal battle ending in 1903, all of the United States and Latin American assets of Zon-O-Phone were turned over to Victor, and the Europe and British Commonwealth assets to the Gramophone & Typewriter Victor Talking Machine continued use of the "Zonophone" name to market cheaper records which for whatever reason were not of the technical standard of the Victor label until retiring the label in the US in 1912. In the United Kingdom, Australia and other British colonies Zonophone was the cheaper label for Gramophone Company 1911 single sided Zonophones were withdrawn—existing titles were doubled under the Zonophone Twin label. In the UK and the Commonwealth, the Gramophone Company continued to use the Zonophone label until 1931
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Keywords: 1920s, 1929, bakelite, disc, gramophone, historical, orchestra, phonograph, retro, shellac, vintage, zonophone
