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Can anyone help identify these pieces?

Thanks!

Third-world torture devices ???

Well, they were extracted from a place where the sun hadn't shone in a long, long time!

The smaller piece was clumsily attached to a Wizard cylinder phonograph reproducer. But I don't think it is a real Wizard modification.

Kurt

Hi Kurt,

The round reproducer piece sure looks like an Edison business machine reproducer weight(I say business machine because my reproducer is early and actually has the markings that a regular C or H reproducer would have on the body--think it is too early to be from an Ediphone, or Edison was just using up old stock parts, as I have later examples of the same type of reproducer with no markings on them) --see attached pictures of one I have that are similar.....

Mike Sorter

One down!

Thanks Mike - I have some of those reproducers, should have checked. That's exactly what it is.

The top reproducer is for a Lioret, equipped for use with listening tubes.

Oh, that's great! I have the Lioret machine to go with it. It has the cardboard reproducer; I didn't know there was another possibility.

Thanks