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Those National phonographs were much lower priced phonographs of the era, pretty much in the catagory of Brunswick type machines. I have seen a few single door National Phonographs before with same decal as yours, but never a double door "Baby Console" type unit like yours. Complete, they only sell for about $100-$150 bucks. George Vollema may have some parts for it, I'm sure. I'd try him first, otherwise gut it and use it as a nice storage cabinet! I put the unit made at about early to mid 1920's. Being a Double Door model, You're maybe looking at it being worth $200.00 total retail if you fully restore it.

Tony K.

VintageTechnologies wrote:No, that is not an Edison, and that was a different National company. Interesting motor though. There must have been hundreds of obscure little companies banging together cabinets and motors. You could attach any kind of generic reproducer that fits the tonearm properly and I doubt anyone will ever notice the difference, but if they do, it will be someone on this board.

I dunno. The cabinet style alone sets it some considerable paces apart from any Edison phono I've seen.