Can Anyone identify this phonograph ?

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Gramtastic
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Can Anyone identify this phonograph ?

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This is a very distinctive machine,especially the reproducer! Anyone know the make ?
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Gramtastic wrote:This is a very distinctive machine,especially the reproducer! Anyone know the make ?
Thanks
Andrew
Could you share a few more photos, including some of the reproducer?

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sorry, it's not mine - this is the best I can get.
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No Suggestions ??

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It could be a Pathé,I'm not really sure.edisonplayer

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I don't know what it is either, but I don't think it's a Pathé. Judging solely upon appearance and the design of the carriage and reproducer, it looks German to me. Just a guess, but Pathé machines are usually more artistic than functional.
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Notice how the motor plate has a gap all around and also the appearance of the lid and the bottom part of the cabinet do not really match that well -- so possibly the bottom part is home made cabinet ? Looks like it might be made up of bits ? Dulcetto

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to me it rather seems to be a phonograph from the line of phonographs made by excelsior
it almost could be a brother of the excelsior lucca model
excelsior lucca 3.JPG
excelsior lucca 4.JPG
it seems to have the same general transport gear arangement

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The " Lucca " phonographs were not a product of the Excelsior Company ( of Cologne ). The " Lucca "along with the " Orpheus ", " Sirena " and "Lyra " models of cylinder phonograph were in 1905 being manufactured by the Fritz Puppel company of Rixdorf, Germany. By 1907 , the " Lucca " phonographs were being advertised as being manufactured solely by the giant Carl Lindstrom A.G. who had presumably previously absorbed the Puppel company. Regards from England Dulcetto

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Dulcetto wrote:The " Lucca " phonographs were not a product of the Excelsior Company ( of Cologne ). The " Lucca "along with the " Orpheus ", " Sirena " and "Lyra " models of cylinder phonograph were in 1905 being manufactured by the Fritz Puppel company of Rixdorf, Germany. By 1907 , the " Lucca " phonographs were being advertised as being manufactured solely by the giant Carl Lindstrom A.G. who had presumably previously absorbed the Puppel company. Regards from England Dulcetto

thanks for that so i can correct my archive!

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