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Curt A wrote:All versions that I have seen in pictures have the tambour door in front, the horn, tonearm and back bracket mounted on the rear and are made to play the 20" Pathé Concert records...

Curt, these machines were not designed to play the 20 inch Pathé records. The tone arm rest would have to be removed to allow that, and the 20 inch records do not fit in the record cabinet (it fits the 16 inch and smaller). The machines that were designed to play the 20 inch Pathés were the Pathé Concert players, which were altogether a completely different line of machines, ranging from the Concert A, a large and imposing open horn machine, to very large cabinets that completely concealed the machine and looked somewhat like church confessionaries.