Decca 44 Portable Gramophone

[Marco Gilardetti]

I don't find much information on this Decca 44 online. So if you are able to share some details, such as it's year of manufacture or other interesting background, that would be greatly appreciated.

The only... well... "brochure" (to call it a book would be wildly overstating) covering Decca gramophones that I'm aware of, is Cristopher Proudfoot's "The Decca Portable Gramophone", published as CLPGS Reference Series N° 35. This booklet desperately seeks being expanded, but it's all that is available at present time, as far as I know.

Your model 44 is covered in one line (!!!) at page 8 (!!!). It is said that it is a smaller version of the model 66, and that the production of the 44 begun in May 1928. It was only made in black. That's it.

A funny snippet from period advertisements is that the names of these "twin digit" models were intended to be pronunced as two separate digits, thus your unit should be named "four-four".