I don't know but might "Meese" be Maas? i.e. George Maas, who was quite prolific in the period in question, most notably for Mercury - but I suspect that does not preclude working for other labels.

Signatures are often very difficult to decipher accurately and over time the writer can adopt very stylised shapes that don't relate at all to the actual letters they are supposed to denote, so I fear it could be anyone's guess. 

Some of the record companies just maintained an art/publicity department that produced more or less anonymous graphics. There is a fairly decent website dedicated to the topic here, but not very many of Bing's covers are shown.

A few individual artists became moderately well known - Steinweiss, Maas,  but I guess you had to be pretty well immersed in the subject to know names and styles.
 

Last edited by Richard Baker (15/12/2016 12:45 pm)