Herwin Record Company

Record Company credit for the Herwin label. Mail-order record company founded in 1925 by brothers, Herbert and Edwin Schiele in St. Louis, Missouri. (HERbert and EdWIN). Herwin sold budget jazz, blues, and old-time music discs that were pressed by Gennett and Paramount. The records were advertised in farming magazines and sold through the mail. The catalogue included Charley Patton, Chubby Parker, and Ernest Stoneman. Closed in 1930 when it was bought by the Wisconsin Chair Company, the owner of Paramount. A second unreleated Herwin Records, Inc. (Herwin Records) was started in 1971 by Bernard Klatzko, a collector who reissued rare, early-jazz discs