Herwin Record Company

Record [b]Company[/b] credit for the [l=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 [l=Gennett] and [l=Paramount]. The records were advertised in farming magazines and sold through the mail. The catalogue included [a=Charley Patton], [a=Chubby Parker], and [a=Ernest Stoneman].

Closed in 1930 when it was bought by the Wisconsin Chair Company, the owner of Paramount. A second unreleated [l=Herwin Records, Inc.] ([l=Herwin Records]) was started in 1971 by [a=Bernard Klatzko], a collector who reissued rare, early-jazz discs