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Hello,

Here is a lovely yet simple pedestal that I use to display one of my Pathé gramophones.

It is 3 ft tall and narrow enough to fit into a corner.

Bruce

Bruce wrote:Hello,

Here is a lovely yet simple pedestal that I use to display one of my Pathé gramophones.

It is 3 ft tall and narrow enough to fit into a corner.

Bruce

Very nice Bruce. Thanks for sharing.

Glad this thread was started. I've had the little cabinet below for over 35 years-- It is small-- Top measures 14" wide by 12 ¾" deep. Total height is 32 ¾". Raised oak panels on three sides. Inside shelf clearance with door open all the way (180 degrees) measures 10 ¼" by 10 ⅜" deep. A 10" record without a sleeve barely fits on the shelves-- If door is opened the 'usual' 90 degrees or so, a 10" record can't be put in. Of course 7" and 8" records fit fine.

Does anyone have an idea as to maker of the cabinet? Any others exist out there in TMF-land?

Thanks-
Brad Abell

I'm happy you folks are contributing to the thread, I thank you all.

Some very nice displays!

Best,
Fran

Bruce wrote:Hello,

Here is a lovely yet simple pedestal that I use to display one of my Pathé gramophones.

It is 3 ft tall and narrow enough to fit into a corner.

Bruce

That's what I'm thinking of, right there! Thanks Bruce.

I hope others contribute to this thread.

Best,
Fran

I searched the interwebs, and found an image of a very nice Victor VI upon a pedestal with twisted carved post:

This is an old photo https://bradfordsantiques.com/inc/sdeta ... n/557/2615 of a Victor VI upon a very lovely pedestal with twisted post: There seems to be a shortage of such images in cyberspace.

Best,
Fran

Marco Gilardetti wrote:Not a real pedestal (I never happened to see things like a real period pedestal here...) but after a looong search I could spot and purchase in a town not so far this Imperial style bedside table, which was being sold as a single piece, and happened to be almost the exact size and quite the same colour of my HMV Monarch II. Being exceptionally tall in comparison to nowadays bedside tables, in my opinion it makes a fairly good pedestal-workaround.

Marco, that combination works particularly well. I would be very pleased with it, the cabinet is the right period and looks correct. I would have bought it. For all we know a gramophone may have once stood on it. After all most machines ended up on furniture that wasn't actually designed for a gramophone to sit on so its good to get the look right.

fran604g wrote:I'm happy you folks are contributing to the thread, I thank you all.

Some very nice displays!

Best,
Fran

Thanks Fran, this is a fascinating subject as it can really set the machine off. I hope we get to see some more pedestals and stands whether designed for a machine or not as it gives folks some ideas for displaying their machines.

Some years ago there was a thread on European stands. It's worth a look as 'roaring20s' posted an American ad for is a record cabinet shown with a trademark gramophone. I wonder if anyone's ever seen one?

The problem with old threads is they get lost on the forum down the years...

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OK, I'll play along. My Victor V sits on the "pretty" pedestal, an old sewing table that was my grandmother's. The other two are pretty utilitarian: my Edison Triumph and Pathé Diffusor both are on record cabinets that I guess date to the 1930s or so. The one for the Edison is full of Pathé records; you can see three of the "clamshell" type storage boxes of the type that have been subject of my as yet fruitless "wanted" ads in Yankee Trader, and now you now why I want them. I think it may well have been sold as storage for those Victor special library sets (the ones that carry an S prefix rather than M or DM or AM) that were bundled together in a uniform style of binder and turn up invariably in slide changer sequence on Z shellac. The one with the Pathé has some Pathé records and some miscellaneous "stuff," mainly sheet music, I think. I really need to clean that one out....

[Edit] Note: the ring around the inside of the Edison's horn is an artifact of camera flash. All visible dust is authentic vintage bad housekeeping.

I keep my Opera on top of a Brunswick Cortez. My wife also keeps some stuff on it too!

My picture is right side up on my computer, I have no idea why it is sideways here.