Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?

jboger · Post by **jboger** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:37 pm

I need the experts to tell me what's up with this. Is it some sort of crapophone?

Wolfe · Post by **Wolfe** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:43 pm

It's an all original early prototype electric Berliner, ca. 1899. Very rare.

phonogfp · Post by **phonogfp** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:50 pm

Wolfe wrote:It's an all original early prototype electric Berliner, ca. 1899. Very rare.

George P.

Stephen_Madara · Post by **Stephen_Madara** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:51 pm

novelty radio record player made by the GUILD company.

jboger · Post by **jboger** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:01 pm

Really? A Berliner? Electric? Gosh, if that's the case I'll stop at nothing to acquire this rare item . . .

Thanks, people. So, made by Guild. When? In the 1960s?

Stephen_Madara · Post by **Stephen_Madara** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:35 pm

I see references of them from 1959. The company made radios depicting things such as grandfather clocks, crank telephones and other novelty designs.

Edisone · Post by **Edisone** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:46 pm

They actually sound fairly okay.

mattrx · Post by **mattrx** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:53 pm

There was a thread about this type of machine no too long ago. http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ilit=guild

Interesting little machine, I watched a one youtube video with one playing and it really did not sound bad at all.

Matt

edisonplayer · Post by **edisonplayer** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:58 am

I remember seeing a Guild phono like that somewhere.A couple friends of mine had a Guild radio in their shop in the shape of a teapot.edisonplayer

Phototone · Post by **Phototone** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:04 am

I've got a floor-standing Guild stereo in the shape of a roll-top desk. It is really a nice piece, with a decent radio and amplifier, with push-pull 6BQ5 output tubes. They were built of a quality above the average stereo of the period, (circa 1959) but not up to component stereo gear.

Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?

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