National Gramophone Co.

National Gramophone Co. A firm established on 19 Oct 1896 by Frank Seaman, in New York, succeeding his New York Gramophone Co.; in advertising it was styled the National Gram-o-phone Co. It was eventually succeeded by the National Gramophone Corp., another Seaman firm established in March 1899. Seaman had contracted personally with Berliner Gramophone Co. for U.S. sales rights—except for Washington, D.C.—to Berliner products, and he set up the National Gramophone Co. to handle sales. After an…