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jboger wrote: Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:20 pm According to the Victor-Victrola website, Victor made a No. 15 soundbox for a short time prior to the introduction of the Exhibition. You can read about it here:
http://www.victor-victrola.com/Soundboxes.htm

The one pictured is called "Version 2," which makes me wonder what Version 1 looked like. Other than "No. 15," I do not know if this has anything to do with your soundbox, which is a beauty, as others have commented.

John

The No. 15 soundbox from your link was made exclusively for the Auxetophone with it's compressed air amplification. It has nothing to do with the Exhibition or other earlier or later soundboxes. The Auxetophone was made from 1906 into the early 1920s and always supplied with this soundbox. Interestingly, the Victor Data Book on one page calls it #15, but in the Auxetophone section the #21 Auxetophone soundbox...

Andreas

The second version #15 its a Victor O reproducer, also used on early Victrola IVs with the metal grill. It is not related to the Yellow Springs reproducer or the #15 auxetophone reproducer...