Hello everyone,
can you help me to identify the model of this columbia with wood horn?
Many Thanks
Columbia wood horn Ientification
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Re: Columbia wood horn Ientification
Beautiful condition!
Very attractive too.
James.
Very attractive too.
James.
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Re: Columbia wood horn Ientification
From the 1913/14 UK Columbia catalogue. This was their most expensive horn model, and yours is a magnificent example. Do you know it's history?
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thanks!Roaring20s wrote:Beautiful condition!
Very attractive too.
James.
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Thank you very much for the information and the photo!epigramophone wrote:From the 1913/14 UK Columbia catalogue. This was their most expensive horn model, and yours is a magnificent example. Do you know it's history?
I would like to clarify that this gramophone is not mine but of a dear friend of mine (the person who let me into this world) who does not know how to use the internet well;
I showed him the picture and he thanks you!!
is it possible to have it in greater definition? so I could print it and give it to him so that he puts it near the columbia;
he told me the story ("nothing really interesting" so he told me) of how he recovered it 8 years ago:
a friend of his from Rome who goes around the world of used objects and flea markets called him and told him he had a friend who had an old turntable in a garage;
my friend asked him how old he was and he said "he will be 40, I don't know I have to hear from my friend; he asks for *** euro";
my friend replies that for a turntable it is too much but (as you never know) he asks him to see it;
A few days pass and in the end his friend takes it and takes it with him to the flea market in our city to show him;
the trumpet was removed from the cabinet and was wrapped in old newspaper;
my friend unwrapped and as soon as he saw what it was he immediately covered with the newspaper and tried to give the impression of little interest;
then he said to his friend "your friend asks *** euro, ok I'll make this effort!"
paid him and took him home;
sorry for my English
I've used google translator
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Thank you Giacomo. Unfortunately my catalogue is a photocopy and lacks the definition of an original. The image is the best I can achieve.
Perhaps another member may have an original which they could scan and post for you.
Roger.
Perhaps another member may have an original which they could scan and post for you.
Roger.
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Re: Columbia wood horn Ientification
ok! thanks anyway for what you have already sent!