Interesting Auction Find!

[Pete Stratford]

A friend of mine recently won this machine in an auction from the U.K. It has an after market attachment to convert the Edison Standard into
a back mount machine. thought i would share a few pictures.

Sorry about the skewed pictures. I checked them to see if they were uploaded correctly and they were. However when I hit submit the Forum program rotates them??

[fran604g]

Wonderful, and very rare!

Best,
Fran

[Jerry B.]

Love to have one. Jerry B.

[Django]

Nice find. The decal really adds to it. The cabinet beneath it and neighboring machines look great too.

[VanEpsFan1914]

Good heavens! First a third example of the Devineau Biophone attachment surfaces and then this rare Phon-Arm? Maybe I need to go shopping and dress up my Fireside a little bit.

No seriously, that's an extremely rare part for an Edison Standard, and it looks like you found one in great shape. Wish I had some weird stuff to trade around for one!

By the way, either that is an Edison Recorder in the carriage, or his reproducer is missing the tailweight.

[gramophoneshane]

Am I right to assume this attachment was made in U.S.A.?

The reason I ask is because I have an Edison Home with a similar attachment of a different design which is apparently of German manufacture.

[gramophone78]

Pete, here are threads on these....
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21940&p=130700&hili ... rm#p130700
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34220&p=203874&hili ... rm#p203874

[gramophone78]

Am I right to assume this attachment was made in U.S.A.?

The reason I ask is because I have an Edison Home with a similar attachment of a different design which is apparently of German manufacture.

Yes Shane these were made (or at least sold) out of Chicago for a very short time.

[gramophoneshane]

Thanks Wayne.
I thought it was but couldn't find the previous threads using the search function for some reason, so was unsure.

[epigramophone]

Here is my thread to the auction catalogue viewtopic.php?f=14&t=42912