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I only copied the logo for this thread.
It was from an old auction.

James.

Roaring20s wrote:I only copied the logo for this thread.
It was from an old auction.

James.

I'm hoping one or more of our community has a cabinet with this decal. How fascinating!

Best,
Fran

fran604g wrote: I'm hoping one or more of our community has a cabinet with this decal. How fascinating!

Best,
Fran

Fran, check the following:

Antique Phonograph Gadgets, Gizmos, & Gimmicks:
Figs. 4-41, 4-42, and 4-43.

Antique Phonograph Accessories & Contraptions:
Figs. 4-53, 4-54, 4-64, and 4-77.

George P.

phonogfp wrote:

fran604g wrote: I'm hoping one or more of our community has a cabinet with this decal. How fascinating!

Best,
Fran

Fran, check the following:

Antique Phonograph Gadgets, Gizmos, & Gimmicks:
Figs. 4-41, 4-42, and 4-43.

Antique Phonograph Accessories & Contraptions:
Figs. 4-53, 4-54, 4-64, and 4-77.

George P.

Thank you George, I will.

Cheers,
Fran

Fran, this is the entire cabinet. Unfortunately this great decorative decal is rather more interesting than the cabinet.

jamiegramo wrote:Fran, this is the entire cabinet. Unfortunately this great decorative decal is rather more interesting than the cabinet.

Thank you Jamie.

Best,
Fran

Here are a couple of cabinet/phono combinations that I particularly like. The one with the Victor V is just like the one pictured in "Antique Phonographs Accessories & Contractions but without the interior dividers. I have seen photos of the one with the Opera, but I can't remember where. I'm not sure of the maker of either of them.

The table in the third photo has always perplexed me. It came from my wife's family and they had always referred to it as the "phonograph table". I assume that, at some point, they used it for a phonograph table. What I'm not sure of is how early it might be. I have seen photographs of early phonograph tables, for front mount machines, that had a little platform underneath to hold the horn when not in use. I've always wondered if this could be one of them.

I forgot to say, the cabinet with the Opera is definitely a cylinder record cabinet. The pegs were gone when I got it.

Harry

Thank you, Harry.

As we've nicely advanced this thread in ways I couldn't have imagined, I'm reminded of a very special table we have in our possession.

It was my great-grandfather's grandfather's. He was a teacher and publisher of Spencerian script in the mid-late 19th century along with his partners R. Platt Spencer and Victor Rice. He actually made the original master copies of the published books used in the schools and seminaries they each mentored.

This was his self-made home writing table and chair. The table now supports my Standard Model A and period ephemera. The portrait of Zachary Taylor, which hangs on the wall behind and above it, was an amazing testimony to his advanced expertise in the art. Done with a quill pen and nothing more than ink shades extracted from tobacco, as the family legend has it, and has been passed down now for 7 generations (including me to my own grandchildren). It is claimed in a letter written by one of my aged relatives to a Batavia, NY librarian/historian in 1993: "His masterpiece, as he called it, won the prize at the Crystal Palace in London which gave him the championship title." Unfortunately he had never received any acclaim that I know of here. Another more famous of his portraits, this one of George Washington done using the same techniques, met with much more fame as a print created from the original, and one such print is memorialized and preserved at George Washington's Mt. Vernon: https://www.mountvernon.org/preservatio ... ct/sc-155/. It's my understanding the print was very popular, and could be found in many homes at one time. Two original portraits were done by him. Through my own research, I discovered one is currently housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and I understand the other original was/is housed somewhere at the Smithsonian. I believe reproductions are still made available at Mt. Vernon. Cheers,
Fran

Three of my pedestals