“Perophone” gramophones are quite rare and the Company’s best known examples were the “Grippa” and especially the miniature “Pixie Grippa” models. This hornless version, from about 1910, has an unusual trapezium shape. It is very good condition with an original “Perophone” sound-box and brass tone-arm. Price £120.00 plus p&p

This is a very nice and very well-made gramophone from about 1911. The Victor Model IV. The “Victor Talking Machine Company” in the US was the dominant producer of gramophones and was the first organisation to adopt the “Nipper” logo, later made even more famous with HMV. The logo can be seen on this gramophone. […]

In about 1900, Emile Berliner in the US developed the flat disc for playing records instead of the cylinders that had been pioneered by Thomas Edison. The discs were easier to replicate in large numbers and Berliner’s invention was adopted almost entirely in the US and the UK. Recordings were made in which the sound […]

This is a nice example of the HMV 97 in a blue case. It works well and the sound quality compares well with the HMV 102 Price £140.00 plus p&p I also have a black version available in equally good condition at £120 plus p&p The gramophone comes with 100 needles and a small selection […]

Here is a very attractive smaller horned gramophone of typically continental design. Probably from Germany and imported into the UK in about 1910. It is all original and the embossed steel horn is decorated in shades of red. The front of the case is decorated with an attractive metal plaque showing dancing figures. Despite having […]

Here is an unusual early portable gramophone advertised and marketed in about 1920 by The Murdoch Trading Company, Clerkenwell Road, London. The gramophone was probably made in Switzerland. Several models of “Beltona” were available in the early 1920s and they were well made and of interesting design as in this model where the tone arm […]

From about 1890 Edison and other companies produced phonographs that played cylinders of recorded music and speech. The original cylinders were made from wax that were ( and still are) very fragile. Emile Berliner in the US invented and patented the first flat disc recordings and since they proved to be much easier to reproduce […]

In about 1926, The Gramophone Company (HMV) produced some very good table gramophones in wood cases, usually in oak or mahogany. These larger gramophones produced a more rounded sound within the wooden cases and two doors at the front revealing the end of the internal horn, gave a a way of adjusting the volume of […]

Here is a good example of the miniature gramophone produced by the Swiss Thorens Company in about 1931. These small gramophones were sometimes known as “Cameraphones” due to their likeness to folding cameras of the time. This  model is in very good condition with an original “Excelda” sound-box  and works really well for such a […]

Edison “Standard” Combination Phonograph. Thomas Edison produced the “Standard” phonograph in about 1898. The first design was known as the “Square Top”, but the more familiar design with the curved lid appeared in about 1901 and was the Model A. Initially the model A had an end-gate to support the mandrel and was fitted with […]