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Very nice machine ! I was not aware that Sears had marketed a talking machine in the Orthophonic class...


Design elements such as the record-rest bars, tab-brake, taper-tube and sound-box are VERY similar to Victor, and even the round sped control is reminiscent of the pre-1912 Victor machines...

Enjoy your machine !



De Soto Frank

" Factory: B.P.Co " ... and the reproducer has a decidedly Brunswick Panatrope look to it. ...hmm

De Soto Frank wrote:Very nice machine ! ...even the round sped control is reminiscent of the pre-1912 Victor machines...

Actually Victor used that round speed control well after 1912; there's one on my XI-G (1917).

That is indeed a nice-looking machine. Do you know what kind of horn it has? Doesn't look like there is room for a very big orthophonic-type folded horn in there. I'd like to hear how it sounds!

Thanks Everyone for the compliments !! Edisone, I had never thought about the B.P. Co. could stand for Brunswick Phonograph Company. Sears had to outsource these things to someone I guess.
Does anyone know or seen the initials for the motor A.A.F. ?
Henry, Being new to the hobby, I do not know the different horn types so Ive included a pic of the horn and the motor. I will try to get a video uploaded over the weekend so you can hear her !!
Thanks Again !!

That is a Brunswick motor to be certain.

If I'm not mistaken, Brunswick sold off their stock of acoustic parts to Sears in the 1930's- possibly they had some working relation in the 20's.

Thanks for the horn picture, breezer. So the horn is a straight acoustic (non-ortho, non-folded) type. How does the machine sound? I see that it does have an ortho-type sound box.

Many of the Silvertone machines had a Saal motor. Saal was a brand out of Chicago. I am not sure if Saal motors were exclusive to Sears or used in other machines. The Saal motors were good quiet running motors.

Edisone wrote:" Factory: B.P.Co " ... and the reproducer has a decidedly Brunswick Panatrope look to it. ...hmm

Huh! I hadn't thought of that. For some reason I ended up thinking it might have meant (B)ridge(p)ort, (Co)nnecticut. (I know it's a reach...)

- Martin

Henry, I am out of town for most of the week and hope to get a video up soon of it playing. To me it sounds wonderful, but this is my first crank phonograph. It has a knocking in the motor that is getting softer, I assume its due to hardened grease in the spring.
Since part of it may be made by Brunswick, should I call it a Searswick or a Brunsears ?

Humm, not too sure about that B. P. Co. abbreviation. If I remember Brunswick was then the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, not the "Brunswick Panatrope Co." Panatrope was just the name of their phonograph line wasn't it?

Clay