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I found this today at a collectors house who was selling some machines. Can you guess what it is??? I will let everyone know tomorrow if no one identifies it correctly.
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Re: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ?
Radio headphone adapter for an acoustic phonograph. Circa 1921-25.
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Below is a page from page 133 of Antique Phonograph Accessories & Contraptions showing a couple of different but similar devices. Also shown is a B&B Duplex which accomplishes the same thing. They're interesting little gizmos. 
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My Grandpa told me they used to put the headphones into a great big bowl, so everybody could hear the radio.
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You guys are just to good. Here is the label on the box. Like you said interesting little gizmo.
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Re: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ?
We aren't all too good... I thought it looked like the gadget you put on an outside faucet to attach two hoses... 
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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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