[78-L] Keen-O-Phone label

[Glenn Longwell]

The last name in the lineage was Imperial before Heineman bought out the studio to start producing Okeh - according to Sutton's book.
Of all the 'obscure' vertical brands the most common that I see is Rex.  
In my attempts to gather info about all of these companies I did happen to acquire a Keen-O-Phone stock certificate.  Neat piece of history.

Glenn

On Wed Aug 18th, 2010 10:56 PM EDT Steven C. Barr wrote:

>From: "Rockined1" <rockined1 at aol.com>
>> just acquired a bunch of Keen-O-Phone 78s--in all my years of collecting 
>> I've never seen this label.
>> Anyone know about it??
>>
>Are these vertical-cut? IIRC, Keen-O-Phone relates to a group of h&d labels
>which eventually emerged as Rex, and faded away c.1916 (I forget the
>final name?!). None of these h&d discs are very common; my guess is
>that they were tossed as the lateral discs became effectively standard...?!
>
>Steven C. Barr 
>
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