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Heart records were available for a short period just prior to WWI, in 1913-14. They were pressed in Germany using Dacapo masters and also had Dacapo catalogue numbers, in 10" and 12" size. The trade journal mentions, when announcing this new label, that there were 70 x 12" and 600 x 10" discs available.
Only a few of the 10" have been reported and no 12" ones have been seen.

They are extremely rare, possibly because of a court case in March 1914, where it was found that the manufacturer had neglected to paste copyright stamps on some of the records, and were instructed to destroy all unstamped records.

The second design, which is ony known from this solitary image, is a label only, having been previously removed from the disc. Hence it is not known if this style was a proper "pressed" record, or it this was a paste-over label. The design and colours are remarkably similar to early "Regal" records.

Thanks to Bill Dean-Myatt for the first image, and Norman Field for the second one.

This is a first attempt at a listing. Please e-mail me if you can help me fill in the gaps in any of these series.

My thanks to Frank Andrews in providing most of the information for this page.

Additional information provided by: Norman Field, Graham Farnell, Ritchie Turner

Cat No	Matrix	Title	Labelled Artists
1

16	5244	Your Eyes Have Told Me So	T. Jackson

51
52	E-269 E-280	"Tosca" - E Lucevan Le Stella (Puccini) "Rigoletto" - La Donna E Mobile (Verdi)	Mr. H. Dubin
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57	E-273 5195	Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep Glorious Devon	Michael Henry Thomas Howell
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72
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78
79	856 P 587-857	Overture from "Cavalleria Rusticana", part 1 (Mascagni) Overture from "Cavalleria Rusticana", part 2 (Mascagni)	[anon]
80
81	560-3213	Selection from "Martha" (Flotow)	[anon]
82
83
84	3037 3111	Nocturne (Chopin) Ave Maria (Gounod; Bach)	Violin Solo
85

130	2685 2701	The Marseillaise March La Brabanconne (Belgian National Anthem)	Waterloo Military Band (n.b. 2nd label design)

138	2616 2624/5	In My Little Cabin Home Out West Last Night Was The End Of The World	The Jollies Herbert Barnes
139
140
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142
143	2676	Land Of Hope And Glory	Howard Thomas

The Following are taken from a trade magazine from August 1913 and seem to show another series, or maybe the original series ran much higher than perviously thought! These are 10" records.

385		Johnson's Jubilee Irish Jigs	Billy Whitlock (xylophone)

398		In The Valley Where The Blue Birds Sing Beautiful Birds, Sing On	Robert Carr (baritone)

440		The Hour That Gave Me You Moonlight Bay	Wilfrid Virgo (with orch accmp) Will Thompson (with orch accmp)

463		In The Gloaming Our Hands Have Met, But Not Our Hearts	John Bardsley
464		In The Garden Of My Heart My Heart IS With You To-Night	John Bardsley

475		The Ghost Of The Violin The Ragtime Goblin Man	Ragtime Joe