May I possibly get the date of one more Edison Home suitcase model?
It's serial number H 19789.
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Edison Home No.19789 left the factory in November 1899.MikeB wrote:May I possibly get the date of one more Edison Home suitcase model?
It's serial number H 19789.
Thank you!
Mike
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For twenty five years I owned serial number H 3229. Sold it maybe 13 or 14 years ago. Would be interesting to know what year it left the factory and where it is today!
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I can help with part of your question. Home No.3229 left the factory in January 1898. As for for where it is today, all I can tell you is it's not in my house!Skihawx wrote:For twenty five years I owned serial number H 3229. Sold it maybe 13 or 14 years ago. Would be interesting to know what year it left the factory and where it is today!
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Thanks George. This certainly shows the slow ramp up for the Edison Home. I thought they were introduced in 1896. That would indicate only 3000 in the first two years and nearly 17,000 in the following year.
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Did your phonograph have the notch that the reproducer lift lever fit into ?? I have always wondered when the skeleton frames and the notched bed plates ended. I have never seen a skeleton bed plate but I have seen pictures. It seems Edison could have saved money on those castings. TomSkihawx wrote:For twenty five years I owned serial number H 3229. Sold it maybe 13 or 14 years ago. Would be interesting to know what year it left the factory and where it is today!
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Then 19789 is now my earliest machine. Thanks for the help!
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I don't remember those details. I don't remember the bedplate looking that much different.tomb wrote:Did your phonograph have the notch that the reproducer lift lever fit into ?? I have always wondered when the skeleton frames and the notched bed plates ended. I have never seen a skeleton bed plate but I have seen pictures. It seems Edison could have saved money on those castings. TomSkihawx wrote:For twenty five years I owned serial number H 3229. Sold it maybe 13 or 14 years ago. Would be interesting to know what year it left the factory and where it is today!
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If you're a member of the APS, go to the web site [www.antiquephono.org.] and go to "Articles," "Advanced." Then go to the September 2006 issue of The Sound Box. There's an article there on the "suitcase" Homes, with in-depth discussions of the various characteristics that appeared and disappeared on the earliest Homes.Skihawx wrote:I don't remember those details. I don't remember the bedplate looking that much different.tomb wrote:Did your phonograph have the notch that the reproducer lift lever fit into ?? I have always wondered when the skeleton frames and the notched bed plates ended. I have never seen a skeleton bed plate but I have seen pictures. It seems Edison could have saved money on those castings. TomSkihawx wrote:For twenty five years I owned serial number H 3229. Sold it maybe 13 or 14 years ago. Would be interesting to know what year it left the factory and where it is today!
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Thanks for the information . It is a good article Tom