Identification of cabinet

[daverob]

Greetings!
I have a thing for ornate cabinets, but Google and flip through references as i have, I cannot find this anywhere...
I don't think its a British hmv type vii or an odd berliner type j. Any ideas? Looks like it housed a beveled motor... Maybe it's just a Monarch upper cabinet dropped into another (who knows what) base frankenmachine. Oh, i bought it on eBay.

[daverob]

Oh Wait, my bad, Monarchs didn't have egg n dart molding there...

[Lucius1958]

The detail that stands out to my mind, is that the crank escutcheon and the (front? rear?) bracket holes appear to be on opposite sides of the case.

A front mount rear-wind, as in the early Zonophones (although those tended to have a centered crank escutcheon), or a front wind rear-mount?

It is, as the king of Siam would say, "a puzzlement"...

Bill

[US PHONO]

Not HMV. I would guess Odeon. There was a lot of imitation of major brands in Europe.

[fmblizz]

Is that Start/Stop round area on the top any kind of clue??

blizz

[daverob]

Well that and the orientation of the speed control not being tangentially to the turntable suggested a very early Victor machine to me.. Well, at least not a later Victor machine.

[daverob]

So... Like, since this is my first post... And it seems like maybe euro machine people might be helpful... Should I post over on that section too? Sorry if that's a dumb question....