What most people refer to as the Auxetophone was originally advertised in the UK as the Auxeto Gramophone.
Despite this elaborate publicity stunt by Percival's Pure Drug Company, sales of all versions in the UK totalled less than 200.
Auxeto Postcard
- epigramophone
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 5235
- Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:21 pm
- Personal Text: An analogue relic trapped in a digital world.
- Location: The Somerset Levels, UK.
- Curt A
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 6435
- Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:32 pm
- Personal Text: Needle Tins are Addictive
- Location: Belmont, North Carolina
Re: Auxeto Postcard
Wonder what happened to those "horny" looking hats?
Looks like they also sold TEETH...
Looks like they also sold TEETH...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
- epigramophone
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 5235
- Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:21 pm
- Personal Text: An analogue relic trapped in a digital world.
- Location: The Somerset Levels, UK.
Re: Auxeto Postcard
As a drug store it is entirely possible that they sold false teeth. They also sold bicycles, as many UK gramophone retailers did in the early days.
Some of the posters are advertising a fete, a suitable occasion for demonstrating the Auxeto.
Some of the posters are advertising a fete, a suitable occasion for demonstrating the Auxeto.