This is a nice original horned gramophone from about 1910. It plays very well with a large steel embossed horn an an original good quality Edison-Bell motor and sound-box. The horn is in original, un-restored colours. The gramophone comes with 100 needles and a selection of 78s if required. It should be collected in person […]
Here is another “Robeyphone” original horned gramophone made by George Robey in Coventry in about 1910. This is a very well made gramophone with a nicely designed oak case and good quality Robeyphone sound-box. The tone-arm ends in a ingenious arrangement which allows the sound-box to be rotated so that Pathe type “Hill-and-dale” or Edison […]
This Columbia horned gramophone is difficult to identify as Columbia machines were available in different designs and made by different factories. This one could be an early “BN” model and the “Analysing” tone arm suggests that is was produced before 1908. The gramophone plays well with a slight rumble in the motor which does not […]
The “Peter Pan” is probably the best known of the small gramophones often referred to as “Cameraphones” and this is one of the best I haven come across. This is the second type of Peter Pan that appeared in the 1920s. The first design had a small telescopic metal horn attached to the sound-box but […]
Here is another mystery gramophone that turned up recently. The case has no indication of name, but a paper label on the inside showed a picture of a gramophone called “The Majestic”. The machine is larger than normal and very heavy with a massive motor and an almost 14″ turntable. The label suggests a Pathe […]
The “Colibri” was a miniature gramophone, produced in Belgium and made available in about 1928. It has an all-metal case, just 12 x 9 x 9 cm but, when assembled, can play a standard 10″ 78 record which must be bolted down onto a 3cm turntable with a left hand threaded nut. The case itself […]
Thomas Edison produced the first “Standard” phonograph in1898 and was known as the “Square Top” due to the shape of the case which had square corners. Later models had the more familiar curved lid. The model in the picture is the model B from about 1905 with the banner logo on the front of the […]
Here is a rare gramophone, the “Polly Portable”. This machine first appeared in the US in about 1915 but an almost identical version called the “Guiniphone” was later made in the UK by the Vickers Armstrong Company, famous for making armaments. The gramophone design was one of the few that attempted to do away with […]
The “Gem” was the smallest of the range of phonographs produced by Thomas Edison around 1900. It was developed to compete with small Continental phonographs that had become very popular in Europe and the UK, but was much better designed. The reproducer was guided precisely across the cylinder with a feed screw instead simply following […]
Two minute “Indestructible” phonograph cylinders. Most phonograph cylinders produced from 1900 were made of wax. Those that have survived are often in poor condition and play badly. From 1902 experimental cylinders were produced by Edison Bell and others that were made from much tougher materials and were called “Indestructible” . These cylinders play better than […]