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British label, issued by Nicole Frères located in London, UK. The records on the Nicole label were 7" sized, or sometimes (scarcer) 10". It specialized in producing of cardboard records with a thin layer of celluloid which acts as the recording medium. This technology was developed by the company in 1903 and successfully used not only for producing own records, but also for supplying the recording medium to other companies like Polyphon Musikwerke, Symphonion AG and Popper and Co. The weakness of this technology was lesser durability of the records comparing to the traditional shellac that is why the reduction in the price of conventional records caused company bankruptcy in 1906.