Here is one of the classic “Must Have” miniature gramophones for serious collectors, the “Mikiphone”.”. . Produced in Switzerland in the early 1920s it was brought to the UK in 1926 and was one of the smallest gramophones on the market. When closed up the gramophone looks like a large pocket watch at 4.5″ across […]
Decca 44 Portable Gramophone The Decca Company produced interesting gramophones from the time of the First WW, when they made their name by producing portable gramophones that could be sent off to the front to entertain the troops. Although not actually the first portable gramophones, they gained that reputation. Early models had the “Bowl in […]
This is a nice example of one of the many tin-plate toy gramophones produced in Germany in the early 1920s. probably the best known name is “Bing” from, I believe, the Bingwerke Company but this is a “Nirona” gramophone and a company that is noted for the distinctive shell-shaped horn. Although these toy gramophones do […]
This is a mystery gramophone made in the form of a “Cameraphone” and is rather like the more usual examples like the “Peter Pan” versions and the “Cameraphone” models themselves. The logo one the inside of the lid says “Eclipse Gramophone Company, 116 Putney Bridge Road, SW.” but I can find no reference to this […]
Collectors will be familiar with early wind-up gramophones which play, in general, 78 rpm discs. Some will have found the earlier phonographs that were developed, if not invented, by Thomas Edison and these play cylinder records. Originally cylinder machines were the first to be available to play recorded music and voices, but cylinders were difficult […]
This is an interesting and particularly attractive portable gramophone known as the “Folding Apollo” from 1921, (Proudfoot’s book, Collecting Phonographs and Gramophones) and made in a teak case. Like some of the early Decca models this gramophone uses the idea of reflecting the sound from a short tone arm against the back of the machine […]
Many small gramophones are referred to as cameraphones as they look rather like the Box-Browie cameras in use at the time, however this is actually a “Cameraphone”. It has a spider turntable and the resonator is a hollow globe shape made of simulated tortoiseshell.
Louis Armstrong, one of the great pioneers of Jazz. I have, probably, the largest selection of Jazz, Swing and Dance 78s in the West Country. I don’t have lists, but collectors are welcome to call in by appointment to search through my stock. I also post records, carefully packed. Prices between £3 and £10 in […]
