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Hello everyone.
I bought this "dancing monkey" on ebay.
Does anyone know anything about it. It looks incomplete. I'm not even sure if it is a gramophone toy.
Dancing Monkey
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Re: Dancing Monkey
It looks like a wind up toy, not a phonograph toy. Phonograph toys don't have clockwork inside, they use the phonograph motor for action...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: Dancing Monkey
I sent a message to the seller when it was first listed and advised it was certainly not a phonograph toy but a celluloid toy of a monkey playing guitar and sent him a listing for one. He acknowledged my message but never made a change. Steve
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Re: Dancing Monkey
here is the one that i sent the seller to compare it with. I would send it back to them. Steve
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