HMV All Brass Victor Flower Horn Question

[Jerry B.]

Here in the States we occasionally see the all brass Victor #24B horn. Did HMV sell other sizes of the all brass Flower horn? If so, what sizes? Can someone post a photo? I asked this question before but didn't get a clear response or a photo.

Thanks, Jerry B.

[jamiegramo]

Hi Jerry,

I have only ever seen the brass morning glory horn in the large size, made for the Gramo Co. Senior Monarch 12" inch turntable machines (the Victor V & Vl equivalents). Apparently unused stock was used up on Zonophone machines when HMV stopped using them. Back in the 1980's quite a few repros of these were being imported here from India. The repros were available in 3 sizes but I was informed, by a specialist who was selling them, that only the large size was really correct for any UK machine as that was the only size originally used here.

As I recall the Indian repros were quite good and I wish I had one of the senior sized ones now! I can see them now stacked up like paper cups! I wonder where they are all now...

Jamie

[jamiegramo]

Here's a better image, than the one I posted before, of famous Edwardian actress Phyllis Dare and her G&T Monarch Senior. She may well have kept company with a few Monarchs... pretty girl. So here's an original brass MG as sold in Britain.

[VanEpsFan1914]

That's a nice looking old phonograph, and though Miss Dare was very pretty, does anyone else think her hair makes her look like Princess Leia?

[Jerry B.]

Thanks for the replies. Early in my collecting years in the late seventies we traveled to Victoria, BC for a vacation. I stumbled on an antique shop that had a nice selection of machines. I remember seeing a red Gem with a large carriage and a mid-sized HMV with an all brass horn. The horn had patina so I assumed it was original. I remember it being about the size of a #19 Flower horn. But that's a forty year memory and it must be a bit faulty. I should have purchased both the E Gem and the HMV but I didn't.

Jerry B.

[Grammofon1904]

This one.. at ebay.de

[Curt A]

What's the link to the one on eBay.de ?

[Grammofon1904]

https://www.ebay.de/itm/RAR-Grammophon- ... Sw8IpclJs9