I finally completed three restorations on three different variations - two different ones on 10" record bases and one on a 12" record base. They are pictured together under an original C.H.Thompson Nipper oil painting.
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I also found a stereo view showing TAE's personal Pathé rooster...
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"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." My Wife