French company sleeve · Pathé
Pathé: dark sleeve with gold cockerels
A dark Pathé sleeve with a gold border, gold Pathé script and a ring of gold cockerel emblems.
Dating at a glance
- Printed
- 1938 or later
the design ran on to about 1949 - In use
- From 1938, through the war and after it
- Confidence
- Medium for the design’s start. We cannot date Simon’s copy within the design’s run
- Basis
- Photographs of the same design with Pathé records of known date
The sleeve
Near-black paper with a gold border, a large gold Pathé
script at the top and ten gold cockerel emblems in a ring around the hole. It appears to be the dark green and gold cockerel design described on our French company sleeves page. Simon’s copy looks black rather than dark green in his photograph, which may be the paper, the ink or the light.
Simon reports that the back is blank or the same as the front, so only the printed face was photographed.
The evidence
- ObservedFrom 1938. Rina Ketty’s J’attendrai, Pathé PA 1477 (March 1938), is photographed in this design on Encyclopédisque.
- ObservedThrough the war and after. The same design is photographed with PA 2217 and PA 2262 (both 1945) and PA 2361 (1946). Our notes record it with Pathé records up to 1949.
- InferredSo, 1938 to the late 1940s. Nothing on Simon’s copy shows whether it was printed before or after 1945. We include it because the design was in use from 1938, but this copy could be post-war.
Sources
- Encyclopédisque, PA 1477 (1938) in this design: https://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/59031.html
- Encyclopédisque, PA 2217 (1945): https://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/74103.html
- Encyclopédisque, PA 2262 (1945): https://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/70474.html
- Encyclopédisque, PA 2361 (1946): https://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/74107.html
What we could not find
- Any printing detail that separates pre-war, wartime and post-war copies of this design.
- Whether a black version existed alongside the dark green one.
Researched 12 November 2026 from Simon’s photographs of that evening.