Number:2784723 Uploaded By:historyofcountrymusic Description: Columbia A3877 A side label (Dec. 1923 - Jan. 1924 repress on Flag label with black patent text)
Number:2784724 Uploaded By:historyofcountrymusic Description: Columbia A3877 B side label (Dec. 1923 - Jan. 1924 repress on Flag label with black patent text)
Number:1873640 HIDDEN Uploaded By:Mike Gann Description: Columbia A3877 A-side label
Bessie Smith's earliest Columbia releases do not yet bear the "Exclusive Artist" branding, cf.
Columbia A3844 (May 1923)
Columbia A3877 (June 1923)
Columbia A3888 (June 1923)
Columbia A3898 (July 1923)
Columbia A3936 (August 1923)
Columbia A3939 (August 1923)
The first Exclusive Artist release is
Columbia A3942 (September 1923)
Thus, cyeaman's Exclusive Artist-branded label is a repress from Sept.-Nov. 1923 (in Dec. 1923, the Flag label was introduced).
historyofcountrymusic's labels are a Dec. 1923-Jan. 1924 repress on Flag label with black patent text, cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 30.
Found a better A-side label and moved it up, Mike Gann. Yours with the "EXCLUSIVE ARTIST (At Pressing)" imprint may have come earlier though (I'm not quite sure), so a nice set of labels with it may oust mine.