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Roaring20s wrote:These styles of graphophones are not commonly found in the US.
Are they plentiful in Europe or did the World Wars take its toll?

James, nothing is plentiful in Europe concerning phonographs/gramophones of all kinds.

This same machine was sold in Spain. I have a couple of pictures from a collector in Madrid: Just my 2 cents!

Best regards,

Pedro Martinez

I would love to see more pictures, if you took more.
Pedro, I will send you a reproducer to fix up, as soon as I find one

I only took those pictures. In a matter of weeks I will come back there because I'm restoring an Ariston organette for him.

I will gladly restore your reproducer!

Regards,

Pedro Martínez

walser wrote:I only took those pictures. In a matter of weeks I will come back there because I'm restoring an Ariston organette for him.

Pictures of the motor/winding handle would be very kindly appreciated.

walser wrote:I will gladly restore your reproducer!

Since I did see your work on the coquet I was looking for an excuse to employ your fabulous skills.

So it turned out, the missing parts miraculously fitted perfectly where they where missing. Unbelievable, as the rest of the gears and cogs are sized slightly bigger. I would not have thought to be able to fix this one.
Here it is in his natural habitat.