Russian musical instrument dealers often added tin or celluloid shields with their business names to the instruments’ headstocks. I’ve gathered some:
Julius Heinrich Zimmermann. Riga, St. Petersburg, Moscow
Julius Heinrich Zimmermann. Riga, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leipzig
Julius Heinrich Zimmermann. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga
= Music = I.F. Mueller, Moscow
Musical Store T/H (trading house) Lemberg, Lekae and Co. Moscow, Kuznetsky Most 15
Trading House F.I. Detlaf and Co. Moscow
Muir and Merrilees Department Store, Moscow
Harmonicas, Mandolins, Guitars, Balalaikas, Strings. N.A. Kolchin, SPB (St. Petersburg) V.O (Vasilyevsky Island) Kadeskaya Liniya
An earlier Kolchin shield
M.K. Korotkin, Kharkov, Ekaterinoskavskaya No.7
Sewing machines and Musical Instruments store of F.S. Ovcharov, Jusovka, Ekaterinoslav
Musical Instruments and Gramophones Store of S.I Liberstein, Kiev, Proreznaya 22
The Greatest Musical Instruments Depot in the South of Russia of E.Z. Petrov, Novocherkassk
The Grimm Brothers Trading House, St. Petersburg
Musical Instruments Factory of J. Rozmyslov. St. Petersburg, Sadovaya 38
Musical Instruments of Alexei Rozmyslov, St. Petersburg, Sadovaya 47
V.Petroff and Son
Schuster & Co, Kiev
Iv. Gr. Chistyakov, Gramophones and Musical Instruments. St. Petersburg, Nevsky 112
Trading House G.S. Chistyakov and Son, Kronstadt
Trading House E.V. Gorbunov & Co. Formerly N. Marechen, Kharkov, Moskovskaya 18
Heinrich-Ignatius Jindrjisek in Kiev and Baku
The Widest Warehouse and the Factory of Musical Instruments of Nikolai Petrovich Koshelev, St. Petersburg, Razyezhaya 19
The warehouse and Factory of Musical Instruments of N. P. Koshelev, St. Petersburg, Razyezhaya 19
Music shop of the Grammophone Society. Astrakhan, Moskovskaya Street, House of Bagiroff.
Krasilnikov Bros. in Kursk
I. A. Suzanadjan, Tiflis
Musical Intruments Depot of Kirillov Bros. Ekateringofskiy Prospect, 80, St. Petersburg
A. F. Gerhard, Kharkov
P.P. Magakov, Moscow, Cherkasskiy Pereulok, Golitsyn’s house
Musical Instruments and Sheet Music R.F. Golnik, Tsaritsin-on Volga, Moskovskaya Str. House No. 14
Music, Gramophones, Pathephones. Trading House of M. V. Kukuev, Moscow, Nikolskaya 3, Opposite to the Upper Trading Rows
J.J. Elcke. Libava, Vokzalnaya St. No. 8. Mitava, Katolicheskaya St. 26
Music Shop of The Lyrophon Society, Saratov, Alexandrovskaya St., The House of Karpov
Music Shop “Northern Lyre” of P.D. Shubin, Arkhangelsk
Trade and Manufacturing Partnership I. Vinokurov and N. Sinitsky, Sadovaya 29-35, St. Petersburg, 10 medals at the Exhibitions
Music Shop of V.A. Guminsky, Nizhni Novgorod, B. Pokrovka
Heirs of L.G. Adler, Rostov on Don





































