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Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:56 pm
by gramophone78
I thought I would play one of my "trade marks" for the family last night before dinner. Even though I did not use my best horn....You know how family can behave. They still seemed to enjoy it. I'm glad as I could have been the main course......
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Re: Gramophones Brings The Family Together.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:00 pm
by JohnM
'Oh By Jingo'??
Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:31 am
by phonogfp
That battered horn looks very much like the one seen on a 1905 postcard showing an Improved Gramophone and two little kids. Don't you have that one?
George P.
Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:57 am
by gramophone78
Yes, it's the same horn and maybe the same machine also. I don't think Berliner's were a hot item in the Congo!!!!
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. I wonder what the shipping charges were
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Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:11 am
by phonogfp
Both cards by the same publisher - - clearly the same machine. I think it's interesting how the horn took such a hammering in a short 5-6 years of life. Someone should have used a box to transport it!
George P.
Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:49 am
by schweg
That horn was obviously used as a target for "spear practice". First one cleanly in the opening wins!!
Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:28 pm
by gramophone78
Steve.......I think I'm going to bite
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. What would one win if you got your spear into the center of the horn????. A steak dinner????
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Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:57 pm
by coyote
Missionary
au poivre perhaps?
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Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:46 pm
by gramophone78
I think I'm suffering from "turkey brain".....
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Re: Gramophones Bring The Family Together.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:38 am
by gramophoneshane
Maybe the local witch doctor thought it was the devil when it started singing, & attacked it with a big stick
They're both great postcards Gram78. I wish stuff like this turned up in these parts.