Re: Is this fake?
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:58 pm
The horn has been repainted, but it is an original Thorens horn from WWI period, as is the back bracket, soundbox, brake & speed control. As I said before, the motor may have been swapped.
Thorens had a bad habit of mixing metals. They'd use a brass brake & back bracket coupled with a steel tonearm & speed control etc. These were nickel plated, but because of the different base metals, the plating will often appear to be different on various parts, even though they're all original to the machine. The soundbox is very obviously a Thorens made box.
The decal decoratings are also typical of Thorens WWI period machines.
Here's a couple different machines from the Thorens 1914 catalogue.
Both these machines show a flower decorated horn, but other models in the catalogue have plain painted horns.
Thorens had a bad habit of mixing metals. They'd use a brass brake & back bracket coupled with a steel tonearm & speed control etc. These were nickel plated, but because of the different base metals, the plating will often appear to be different on various parts, even though they're all original to the machine. The soundbox is very obviously a Thorens made box.
The decal decoratings are also typical of Thorens WWI period machines.
Here's a couple different machines from the Thorens 1914 catalogue.
Both these machines show a flower decorated horn, but other models in the catalogue have plain painted horns.