I am in the market for a complete Columbia Graphophone Parlor Desk machine. I am aware that this was offered in a version that incorporated chosen Columbia models that played either the standard two minute cylinders, as well as Columbia models that played the concert cylinders. Machine must be accurate and not cobbled up.
Thanks so much!
WANTED: Columbia Graphophone Parlor Desk Phonograph
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Re: WANTED: Columbia Graphophone Parlor Desk Phonograph
Is this what you mean...?
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Re: WANTED: Columbia Graphophone Parlor Desk Phonograph
At first I thought I had a customer for my Columbia Regent "desk" model, but I saw that you want a cylinder machine. Looks like it would be impossibly rare and expensive. 1880's?
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Re: WANTED: Columbia Graphophone Parlor Desk Phonograph
Yes...this is exactly what I am looking for.
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Re: WANTED: Columbia Graphophone Parlor Desk Phonograph
This particular model was offered from 1898 until 1902/03, when it was remaindered for $35.00.marcapra wrote: Looks like it would be impossibly rare and expensive. 1880's?
Early-production examples were made for various Edison Phonographs too, but after Edison blacklisted Hawthorne & Sheble in 1899, the company no longer catered to Edison machines. For this reason, it's easier to find Graphophones in earlier H&S cabinets. By 1902 or so, H&S was offering its smaller cabinets cut for various Edison models again.
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