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Thank you Roger, for the greetings, and thanks Barry and Inigo for the interest

I recognize the Goldring Luxus, I have a couple of those. I have myself not seen the "Royal Luxus" sound box before, but I have also not seen that much, it was the back side of the sound box that reminded me of Goldring,,,

I upload some more photos from the interior of the Parlophone Primax, the sound box righthly has ODEON written on the side, and nothing else, but the Odeon name of course makes sense, since they are both Lindstrom products. I also feel the sound box is belonging to the machine, also because it is gilted, as the corner shields.

There are no risk for needles to fall into the horn, since the compartment under the lid is all locked with no horn entrance, as we can see on the photos. I find the machine well built, and I have also taken some photos of the wind up mechanism. The single spring motor is numbered "4", but as we know Lindstrom manufactured MANY different motors, myself I have not seen this motor before with this wind up mechanismm but maybe it looks similar to one of your Parlophone portables, Barry?

But then comes the big question, are we seeing a portable built during the very early 1930s..or ?

Verrrrrry nice! Truly seems to be a luxury model. About the fraternity between odeon and Parlophon, yes yes. It was clearly a time just before EMI when they were all together with Columbia too. In Spain I have odeon records with parlophone side numbers in the runout area just crossed with a line and odeon face numbers added, and vice versa. Besides that, these odeon soundboxes have the same balance system with threaded pivot and nuts as that of the Columbia viva tonal soundboxes, etc. The Odeon Scala soundbox they advertised in 1926/27 was this way too.

Nice find! These aren‘t very Common in nice and clean condition.
Do you cleaned the felt in any way? Would Like to know how you would do that.

Anyway:

Thank you very much for sharing these very interesting and historical photos, Nektreg.
We can see from the photos that the Primax during its rather short life span, came in two versions. The tone arm is positioned differently on the the model on two different photos. I have the version with the tone arm positioned in the center on the inner section of the motor board.
I have not cleaned anything yet, and in particular not the velvet or felt, or whatever material was used to cover the lid and the record cover. I am very hesitant to clean it with anything, even if we can see there are some black marks on the record cover from the turntable.
I don't know if an upholstery cleaner can be used or not...or if it is better left as it is.

You might clean the felt with a soft bristle brush or a vacuum cleaner set to delicate suction. Don't use anything wet or you risk shrinkage (I know this from experience).

nostalgia wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 5:07 am Thank you very much for sharing these very interesting and historical photos, Nektreg.
We can see from the photos that the Primax during its rather short life span, came in two versions. The tone arm is positioned differently on the the model on two different photos. I have the version with the tone arm positioned in the center on the inner section of the motor board.

You‘re right - the first picture with the tonearm on the center is from a Parlophon record list of September 1928, so probably you‘re one is a older version. These also had a different lid stay

Thanks Curt, and yes I agree. I also have experienced shrinkage after cleaning felt, and I for sure don't want to ruin this gramophone. Whatever fabric is used in the interior of the machine, using a chemical or water will most possibly do harm. A brush sounds great, thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks too for your input, Nektreg, regarding the dating of the gramophone.