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There are forum members far more knowledgeable on EMG matters than myself, but I do know that the Wilson Panharmonic horn was made by the Scientific Supply Stores of Newington Causeway, London.

Your Wonderphone horn made (or supplied?) by the Oxford Camera & Gramophone Co is unknown to me. As you rightly say, more information is needed.

That looks like a horn designed along similar lines to a Wilson Panharmonic or EMG Mk VIII etc, but is not actually either - with the narrow end pushed into a broken EMG Mk VIII stub. My guess is that the rim has simply become abraded fom standing upright on the floor when not in use. I can't imagine that bumpy surface helps the sound - maybe that was the snake oil aspect that allowed the designer to patent it!

A very strange craft indeed ! What is the diameter of the horn outlet ? The Mk VIII had a final diameter of 24 inches.

As Orchorsol says, the sound quality is unlikely to be good, having to navigate the "furrows", and the whole affair looks rather unconvincing---most improbably anything to do with EMG as a horn it would seem. In my limited experience, I have never come across anything quite like it before even though there were other papier-appliqué horn makers. The construction would appear to be paper over wicker---a very bizarre idea unrelated to the successful scientific reproduction of sound in spite of Wilson horn pretensions ! I suppose that when the paper was new, and laid over the wicker template on both sides, the result could have been a reasonably smooth surface before the ravages of time caused quite a lot of shrinkage ? Still not the best of ideas but intriguing nevertheless!

Do you know anything about the history ? Full dimensions would help the investigation.

How does it sound ?

It's not a horn at all!

It's the basketweave cane carrying case for transporting the original horn, and has been papered over. I've only ever seen one, and it had a leather carrying handle attached.

That sounds like a logical explanation, in which case the Wonderphone plaque must have been a later addition. Where did it come from?

epigramophone wrote:That sounds like a logical explanation, in which case the Wonderphone plaque must have been a later addition. Where did it come from?

Christie's probably:
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LotD ... tID=673159

and then maybe sold on Ebay 17 years later;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130866057519

Steve

There is a tiny thumbnail picture still available for that last eBay auction. It does not show up by default so here it is:
If it is the same horn, it seems it was made for a phonograph and has had both ends cut off for use with an EMG. Strange if so, as you would expect it to be valuable in its own right.

Cheers,
David.

When I posted earlier that this was a carrying basket for the original horn, it may have led to confusion- sorry!

I didn't mean the original horn for the EMG pictured, I meant the original phonograph horn that the basket was made for. This mutilated thing is nothing whatsoever to do with EMG.