CL - Gilbert No. 77 - Sardis, British Columbia

[Lah Ca]

Gilbert No. 77 - $350 CDN about $272 US

Sardis is a southern district of Chilliwack, a city out the Fraser Valley from Greater Vancouver. It is close to the Sumas border crossing into Washington State.

https://abbotsford.craigslist.org/atq/d ... 87598.html

Interesting machine with a Garrard double spring motor. Very curious tone arm.

Most of the 78 albums with the unit seem to be of the electrical era and not contemporary to the machine.

[pallophotophone]

Some of those sets are Canadian pressings with Canadian labels of American recordings. Interesting in their own right.

[epigramophone]

Here is a history of Gilbert gramophones :

http://www.gilbert-gramophones.co.uk/history.htm