Who can identify this machine? 50+ year mystery

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Re: Who can identify this machine? 50+ year mystery

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Sidewinder wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:02 pm There was a time when there were many european companies (German & Swiss primarily) making components, and other companies in many locations buying these components and creating generic looking machines.

If the machine was from the Parlophone company, it would be easy to identify as Parlophone is fairly well documented.

The diversity of pressed steel horns is huge. This particular style horn I have seen on an Apollo machine, but looking at 1912 / 1913 Apollo catalogues, the horn styles in these catalogues were different!

Pictured is the right horn style - but unfortunately repainted.

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Just to confuse everybody even more, this particular horn style was also used by Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd.
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Steve wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 6:38 am Just to confuse everybody even more, this particular horn style was also used by Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd.
Used on the Columbia 2 and 2a Horn Models. Did they manufacture them or buy them in?
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