[78-L] ARTO Label Question

[Ate van Delden]

Arto was an independent manufacturer of gramophone records. Many of their 
issues also came out on the Bell label. BTW I have seen many Arto ads, but 
only a few actual records, while the Bells are quite common but I never saw 
an ad!
The California Ramblers with Adrtian Rollini made several records for Arto / 
Bell, but only one for Victor (which remained unissued).

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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 7:22 AM
Subject: [78-L] ARTO Label Question


Just brought home a collection 78s and found a few labels I haven't seen 
before. One is the ARTO UNIVERSAL RECORD, whose label bears a striking 
resemblance to the VICTOR batwing label, at least the layout, with the gold 
batwing border and text with black background. I found a couple brief 
references to this label in the 78-l archives, not to informative, though. 
Not much on the 'net, either. You can view the label here:

http://78records.cdbpdx.com/labels/RSA/#ARTO

I assume this was a VICTOR product, probably a contemporary of their batwing 
label?? Rare, maybe?

Any comments?

Thanks! CDB
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