Horn ID help...

[browncow]

Today while out and about, I saw a horn with an unusual mount on it. It was a red paneled horn, much like the type and size that you would find on a Standard Talking Machine, except that it reduced all the way down as if it were for a cylinder player. Also, the only way that it could attach to the machine was by means of a butterfly-shaped bracket that attached to the horn by a single bolt through a single panel of the horn.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? I wish I had snapped a picture!

browncow

[Andersun]

Your horn is for a Busy Bee front mount phonograph. Google Busy Bee front mount and you will see it.

Steve

[Andersun]

Here is a link......

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/s ... eill-james

[browncow]

Thanks! That's the one. Do they have any significant value?

[Andersun]

No significant value. They are pretty common but usually faded and have circular scratch marks on them where the butterfly mount was accidentally rotated around on the horn.