Columbia Records in the US had two parts. A manufacturing company called American Graphophone Company (later it became the Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Company in 1916). A graphophone is a device used to play cylinders.
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Originally founded by Edward Lewis in England. Decca came to the US in 1934. The first US Decca label was a Sunburst design but that design disappeared in 1937. The sunburst design was replaced by a Decca in block lettering. The pre—WW2 Decca in block-lettering can be found in mainly blue and red.
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