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Here are a few of my favorite dusters. Nice thread...





These two are combo needle tins and brushes. Kind of fun.

I have a brush that's similar to gramophone78's RCA Victor one. Around the edge, where the metal is crimped to the pad, it says "PHILA BADGE CO INC PHILA PA MADE IN USA". Mine doesn't have a dealer stamp; that area of the badge is blank. Anybody else's say that?

frenchmarky wrote:These are really cool looking! Especially like the ones that look like little phono records, like those gold Vocalions.

Yes, the Vocalions do look pretty snazzy I actually placed a bid on a third Vocalion variation earlier tonight, which is kind of a shame because I doubt I'll ever buy a Vocalion machine to put them with. I'm not a big fan of machines that use pot metal tonearms
I'd love to find one like the Kent Piano Co duster at the start of the thread, with the needle cup & cute little lid. I dont think I've ever seen that design before. I should imagine the little lids would have a habit of getting lost too.

Henry wrote:I have a brush that's similar to gramophone78's RCA Victor one. Around the edge, where the metal is crimped to the pad, it says "PHILA BADGE CO INC PHILA PA MADE IN USA". Mine doesn't have a dealer stamp; that area of the badge is blank. Anybody else's say that?

My Brunswick duster has "Patented November 1922 Philadelphia Badge Co, Phila., USA." around the edge.
The second Vocalion pictured has "Phila Badge Co Phila PA USA Patent pending".
Both of these have a velour type cloth pad, instead of the more common deep pile silk velvet.

Henry,mine has the same writing on the rim.Glad to see all these cool brushes.keep them coming!!!!.I thought I would add a slight O/T on this thread.First a repeat pic of my "Kent Piano" brushes but this time with the "Kent" needle tins.Even though one has a built in tin.Then a new group of Canadian brushes and again with the matching tins.

Well I won my third variation of the Vocalion duster. I haven't received it yet, but here's the ebay pic. This duster is also marked on the edge- Phila Badge Co, Phila PA, USA Patent Pending.
I wonder what other variations there are?

I think the Kent Company was the Edison jobber for British Columbia, if I'm not mistaken.