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Was there a Pathé Pathéphone No. 1 phonograph made.?


JAR

Yes there was. The Nouveau Phonographe Pathé range of c1902 comprised Models 0,1,2,3 and 4.

Some are pictured in "The Illustrated History of Phonographs" by Daniel Marty, ISBN 0-88029-388-8.

Hello , some may think what I am about to say is a little pedantic , but I am an adherent of accuracy -- to be correct , there is no such thing as a Pathé Pathéphone No 1 phonograph -- presuming you mean a cylinder player , to use the European terminology. Pathé only used the word Pathéphone when referring to their disc talking machines , they always referred to their cylinder players as phonographs -- some of which in the early years were sold as Graphophones when Pathé were manufacturing their own copies of Columbia cylinder machines. Regards Dulcetto

Actually I meant a phonograph, not cylinder.

Jerry

Disk Phonographs from Pathé were A, B, C, D, E in the first series in 1906, and 2, 4, 6 etc to 18 in the open horn type from around 1909.

then it gets a little foggy with Olophone models and tabletop pathephones, Salons, Concerts.....from 1914 onwards, with old models also being renumbered.

Do you have a machine that needs to be ID'd?

Thanks for the info, No I have an ID on it, it's a No. 2.
But I've noticed on this model the cabinet trim has changed once or twice?


Jerry

The Pathéphone Jeunesse, the little one with internal aluminum horn, was also sold as nr 1

Of course the most precise route to take for a definitive answer is to post a photo.

Here's what I have found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS8PAHsX0vc&t=1s

Jerry

The second picture is the one I have,

Jerry