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Howdy all,

I recently acquired an early Brunswick gramophone which is missing the original record storage area.
I'm wondering if anyone that has one of these early models has any images of this area, and/or information
regarding it's construction, material, or dimensions?

I'd like to try and recreate it but I have no idea if the vertical slats were hinged in any way, how they were numbered to match
the card pinned to the door, or if they had some type of neat record-ejector system?

The image below is the only image I could find that shows what my storage area looked like -there are remnants inside my machine that indicate
it contained the vertical slats and both horizontal shelves are present. In fact, my machine looks identical to the machine in the image (except obviously for the missing slats - but I think I already covered that).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Judging from the illustration, that looks very much like the filing system used on Grafonolas and later DDs: wooden, metal or fiber separators usually covered at the outer end with velvet or leatherette , and with a number strip beneath them (you can just see that lighter strip beneath the slats). I don't see any ejector buttons on there, though….

Bill