Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

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Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

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The original pornograph....

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:lol: The first crapaphone!
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His Mistress' Voice...
"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
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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Now, that is what I would call a true tone-arm <rim shot>.

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Picasso involved in crapophones making... Wooow!
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The phonograph part is a Pathé 6...

Now worth a bucket-load of cash in this "pimped" state.

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Went missing after 1938, then "...found in a warehouse on the outskirts of Paris..."
Apparently not even the Nazis wanted it.

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Sidewinder wrote:The phonograph part is a Pathé 6...

Now worth a bucket-load of cash in this "pimped" state.
I also thought it was a Pathé but it appears to have a speed control on the top, which does not match. These Pathés normally have speed control on the side, and their cheaper brand Omnibus had a different type of control. But being Pathé, it is possible ...

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As you can see from the electric cable, the motor is replaced so that may be the controller for an electric motor - presumably the artwork has some moving parts. Turntable also not Pathé. For reference a Pathé 6
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