I first stumbled upon Google shortly after the site was established in the late 1990s. It's been my home page ever since.MordEth wrote: I never realized that these two product lines under the Brunswick name were the same company...
Thanks to Google for the link, because a search is only a tab away in Firefox. And I Google everything.
— MordEth
There's quite a bit of piecemeal information online about the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, now Brunswick Corporation. A good synopsis is available on This Site
I also did a cursory search, using the Google News Archive but did not see any mention of a deal between Sears & Brunswick.
I'd imagine that the actual manufacturer that made the phonograph for Sears probably bought up Brunswick's old parts stock. It would seem, though, that using the old style -- pre-1925 -- tonearm would somewhat diminish the advantages of an exponential horn--if that's indeed, what was installed in the cabinet. Hopefully, one of these late production Sears acoustic cabinet models will surface someday. (I've never seen anything like that on eBay, or in any shop over the past 30 years!)