Anker-Record
Anker–Record, also known as Anker-Rekord, was a trademark used in the early 20th century for gramophone records (shellac records). The label sticker applied to the discs at times featured a stylized anchor as its logo, along with details of the recorded piece, the performer's name, and a running serial number for the title.[1]
History
[edit]The Anker trademark was originally used by the firm F. Adolf Richter & Co. in Rudolstadt, Thuringia. Recordings were made until 1906 by the Berlin-based National Phonogramm GmbH.[1] From December 1907, production passed to the Anker Phonogramm Gesellschaft, based in Berlin, which recorded the music and also handled sales of the records.[1]
Later, "Anker Rekord" discs, together with the patent-protected "Anker-Resonanz-Sprechapparate" (a type of gramophone),[2] were manufactured and sold jointly with products of the record label Kalliope, through the Berlin firm Menzenhauer & Schmidt (owner Henry Langfeld).[3] Kalliope Musikwerke AG entered insolvency in 1914 and was liquidated in 1917; in 1919 the Anker and Kalliope brands were both taken over by Menzenhauer & Schmidt.[4][circular reference]
Connection to the Richter industrial empire
[edit]The Anker trademark used on these recordings belonged to the same Rudolstadt firm founded by Friedrich Adolf Richter that also produced the well-known Anker-Steinbaukasten (Anchor Stone building blocks) and the "Anker-Pain-Expeller" patent medicine, among other goods marketed under the anchor emblem; the Neue Deutsche Biographie confirms that from 1876 the firm's product range already extended to "music automatons, music boxes and mechanical phonograph records."[5]
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References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Lotz, Rainer E. Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe, and Germany. Bonn: Lotz. p. 228. ISBN 978-3-9803461-8-4.
- ↑ DE patent 235727, Auguste Neumann, "Resonanzschalltrichter zur Aufnahme und Wiedergabe von Lauten und Tönen", issued 1911-06-20
- ↑ Illustrated advertisement in the trade journal Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbauer, 1922.
- ↑ "Kalliope (Label)". Wikipedia (German). Retrieved 2026-08-20.
- ↑ Pühringer-Gräf, Andrea (2003). "Richter, Friedrich Adolf". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 21. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 521–522. ISBN 3-428-11202-4.
