stumbled onto this the other day,just a picture.

STARR-OLA · Post by **STARR-OLA** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:01 pm

I found this on the bottom of a box full of edison dd,s,i thought i saw everything by now but this picture stumped me!

.anybody?

Wolfe · Post by **Wolfe** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:21 pm

Oh, they don't make crapophones the way they used to. What a beauty.

Though it still pales in comparison to the ever luminous Vera Lynn.

Post by **epigramophone** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:38 pm

The machine may not be 100% original, but are you sure it is a Crapophone?

The "plumbing" between the tonearm and the horn appears identical to that on a German machine Picture 1-108 in "Antique Phonograph Accessories and Contraptions", whilst the straight tonearm with adapter looks as though it might be by Pathé.

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:22 am

The base is original, as is the horn. The horn looks like what Symphonion used to use on their coin op disc players - but there were also other manufacturere of this horn style. So it could be right rather than a horn and base married at some later stage. My bet is that it is a German manufactured machine.

If I saw it at market, I would grab it at the right price

/lsm

mrphonograph · Post by **mrphonograph** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:06 pm

this horn pops up on auctions now and then allways on markless machines so maker unknown i dubbed this type of horn the horn of pleny since the mythical horn in 18th century depictions always has this type of loop on it