ELECTROLA DE Labels and Company Sleeves 1953-1967
7 MW 510 - 1953
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7 MW 642 - 1955
7 MW (17) 8515 - 1955
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7 MW 8686 - 1958
45 EG 8661 - 1957
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45 EG 8729 - 1957
45 EG 8732 - 1957
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45 EG 8804 - 1958
The Electrola Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Electrola GmbH) was founded on May 8th, 1925 in the outskirts of Berlin as the German subsidiary of The Gramophone Company Ltd. as a Holding Company for the Electrola label, the German equivalent to His Master's Voice. Due to the merger of the Grammophone Company Ltd. and the Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd. into the Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI), the Electrola Gesellschaft m.b.H. became a daughter of EMI in 1931. After the destruction of their studios and pressing plants during WW II, the Electrola Gesellschaft m.b.H. and her sister company Carl-Lindström-GmbH moved to Cologne in 1953 (their former estate was in the Russian zone) and opened a modern recording studio complex with adjacent pressing plant in 1956. After establishing an MC production in 1966, the Carl-Lindström-GmbH and the Electrola Gesellschaft m.b.H. were eventually fused to the EMI Electrola GmbH on November 30, 1972. EMI Electrola GmbH immediately set up an own trademark for their products: EMI Electrola.
E 20217 - 1958
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E 21767 - 1961
E 21640 - 1961
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E 23702 - 1967
Label dormant
Range
Front
Back
Details
No 1
1953
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   Curved top - high  Inside glued  
No 2
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1957
 Cut straight/notch  Glued left/right  
No 2 a
1958
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Sleeve not avaliable
for scan
       
No 2 b
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   Cut straight/notch  Inside glued  
No 3
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Some logos redrawn
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 4
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1959
Parlophone removed
Mercury added
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 5
1959
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MGM removed
   Cut straight/notch  Inside glued  
No 6
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   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 6 x
E 21 343 - 1959
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As above
Deutsches Schlager
Festival 1959
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 7
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Some logos redrawn
   Curved top  Inside glued  E 22 460 
No 7 x
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As above
When they got a hit selling faster than the picture sleeves could be delivered, the company sleeve was used with a special print.
   Curved top  Inside glued  
No 8
1960
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3 lines
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
No 9
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4 lines
   Cut straight/notch  Inside glued  
No 10
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   Cut straight  Inside glued  
Distribution sleeve
D 1
E 22 640 - 1963
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Sleeve not avaliable
for scan
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
Thematic sleeves
T 1
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Dance
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 2
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International
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 3
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Italian Music
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 4
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Folklore
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 5
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Skyline
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 6
Christmas 1960
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Christmas
The Christmas sleeve was used for the whole Electrola label family during the christmas season 1960. Possibly again in 1961 but this is uncertain.
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 7
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Easy listening
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 8
1963
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International
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 9
1963
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International
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 10
1964
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Tropical
   Cut straight  Inside glued  22 591 - 1964
T 11
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Jazz
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
T 12
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San Remo Festival
   Cut straight  Inside glued  23160 - 1966
Artist sleeves
A 1
E 20 930 - 1958
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Conny Froboess
   Cut straight  Inside glued  
A 2
E 21 351 - 1959
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E 21 543 - 1960
Rex Gildo
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
A 3
1962
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Peter Garden
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
A 4
E 22 141 - 1962
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Lale Andersen
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
A 5
E 22 141 - 1962
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Lale Andersen
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
A 6
E 22 693 - 1964
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E 23 083 - 1965
The Swinging 
Blue Jeans
   Cut straight  Inside glued   
 EP sleeves
E 1
1956
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   Cut straight  Stitched left/right  
Sleeves for promo records
P 1
1967
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   Cut straight  Inside glued   
P 2
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   Cut straight  Inside glued