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Gramtastic
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Algraphone label

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Anyone see this Algraphone price label on Ebay ? I can't believe the price of the machine. if we assume it was about 1920 it would be around £2,300 today !!
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Gramtastic wrote:Anyone see this Algraphone price label on Ebay ? I can't believe the price of the machine. if we assume it was about 1920 it would be around £2,300 today !!

Did they look a bit like the photo below ?

If so they seem very fancy but as you say expensive.


https://www.78rpm.club/gramophones/algr ... x[4183]/0/

(Sorry, can't seem to make the link work by clicking :( )
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Here is the "clickable" link... This appears to be a very useful website. Thanks for posting it.
https://www.78rpm.club/gramophones/algraphone/
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Curt A wrote:Here is the "clickable" link... This appears to be a very useful website. Thanks for posting it.
https://www.78rpm.club/gramophones/algraphone/

Thank you Curt. Everyone's a winner ! :)

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Algraphone gramophones were made between 1922 and 1926 by Alfred Graham & Co, better known (at least in the UK) for their Amplion loudspeakers.

The Algraphone was an expensive bespoke machine. Motors, tonearms and soundboxes were all made in house and installed in a large range of period style cabinets. One of their distinctive features was the forward sliding volume control, resembling a drawer front.

One surviving Algraphone, hand painted over gold leaf and looking like Britain's answer to the Vernis-Martin Victrola, also retains it's original sales ticket priced at 425 Guineas (£446.25). This sum would have bought a house at the time.
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