Royal Record (4)

First Argentinian label, owned by then German International Zonophone Company and distributed by the record store Casa Repetto in Buenos Aires. Casa Repetto received trademark protection for the label name "Royal Records" and the fleur-de-lis design on July 24, 1902. It advertised its records in Caras y Caretas Nº 203 of August 23, 1902 as "the first ones sold in Buenos Aires." The label was intended to be sold together with Zonophone brand phonographs as an attempt to introduce commercial records to Buenos Aires. Prior to this, the only grammophones and cylinder discs were shown by universities. Recordings were done by a mobile recording team carrying from the German Zonophone branch, brought back to Berlin to be pressed, and sent again to Casa Repetto. The store also sold 1100 imported single-side Zonophone records. Its Royal Record label, however, was not commercially successful. In Dec. 1905, Casa Repetto began to sell Zon-o-phone records as Disco Zonofono, this time pressed by the American factory Universal Talking Machine Manufacturing Company for a small number of years, before withdrawing again.