Please help to identify a machine

[blackCygnet]

Hello talkingmachiners:

I'm a relatively new collector and would like to ask your help to identify a machine. A couple of years ago I was offered a small portable phonograph which was round, in a nickel plated case, and approximately 8-9 inches in diameter. Since refusing to buy it, my interest in it has grown, and I would now like to find and purchase one. I do remember it had the name Mickey in it, but when I search all I find are Mickey Mouse phonographs. Any info you can provide, especially its name, will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Pluto

[Roaring20s]

Here you go...
http://www.google.com/search?q=mikiphon ... 20&bih=754

[Phonofreak]

You are looking for a Mikkyphone, a small portable made in Switzerland in the 1920's. For a good complete one, they start at a few hundred dollars on up.
Harvey Kravitz

[Steve]

Yes, but probably getting closer to a couple of thousand Dollars for a complete one! That means with original needle tin, clean instruction label to lid, original packing / instruction booklet and leather carrying case with handle/strap!

There have been a few on US eBay and they all seem to fetch around $1500-1800

[Starkton]

That means with original needle tin, clean instruction label to lid, original packing / instruction booklet and leather carrying case with handle/strap!

How many of you have a "complete" phonograph, that means including the shipping crate with straw filling?

[Steve]

that means including the shipping crate with straw filling?

I have! Although I'm not certain if the STRAW is original to it or if it might have been replaced. How can I be sure about the straw?

[blackCygnet]

Thanks guys. I really appreciate your replies very much. All I want is the machine itself, which I could have had at the time for about $225. Somehow I don't think I'll be lucky enough to find it for that price again. But then, I really don't want the original straw.

[Retrograde]

You are looking for a Mikkyphone, a small portable made in Switzerland in the 1920's. For a good complete one, they start at a few hundred dollars on up.
Harvey Kravitz

FWIW, Mikky Phone and Mikiphone are different machines.

[Phonofreak]

You are looking for a Mikkyphone, a small portable made in Switzerland in the 1920's. For a good complete one, they start at a few hundred dollars on up.
Harvey Kravitz

FWIW, Mikky Phone and Mikiphone are different machines.

Thanks for the info. I knew there were two different machines. I got confused with the different spellings. The machine I was referring to was the 1920's one. About the other one with the square case, I know they were made in Japan. Was that before WWII or Post WWII in occupied Japan? I've heard they were made from the 1930's until the late 1940s.
Harvey Kravitz

[OrthoSean]

Mikky Phones were made at least until the late 1940s. I've seen several labelled as being made in "Occupied Japan". I wouldn't be surprised if they were around into the 1950s, though.

Sean