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[quote=Sidewinder post_id=365783 time=1764784369 user_id=775]
In London in 1892 Berliners were available in London through the company Parkins & Gotto. Machines & 5" discs
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In early January 1891, the Central Stores, High Holborn, London, were the first to offer gramophones in England. Parkins and Gotto, 54, Oxford-street, London followed at a later date. Perhaps from May 1891(?).

The machines were manufactured under Emile Berliner's license by the Grammophon-Fabrik Kämmer, Reinhardt & Co. in Waltershausen, Thuringia region, Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha.

[quote=TAP post_id=365791 time=1764797001 user_id=1343]
The newspapers of 1895-6 mention a toy Berliner for $5.00. Is that the same as the "toy Berliner" shown in the recent Stanton auction?
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It is unknown if the announced $5 gramophone "for the use of children“ was already on sale in early 1896, and how it looked like. But two years later, in an advertisement by the National Gramophone Company dated December 19, 1897, the Vo-co-phone, the Improved Gram-o-phone, suddenly appeared at a price between $5 and $25.