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Spotted both of these today. I assume they are recreations by their owners.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crank-record-pl ... 48793c76ef

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/337 ... phonograph

Both are "re-creations", but the second one is actually dangerous to records as it is shown...

That second "machine" may have been responsible for the loss of a bunch of Paramounts and Black Patti's...

On the first one it looks like the horn was made from a 1920s Japanese kazoo with the mouthpiece cut off and then fitted to a plumbing elbow.

I have a 'horn' just like it. I cut off the noisemaker, lightly hand-polished the horn and sprayed it with gold lacquer, and mounted a piece of rubber to the end so it won't scratch the mouthpiece of a tinfoil phonograph. It makes a great hand-held amplifying horn for making and playing tinfoil recordings. Perfect dimensions and suitably antique look, and it cost almost nothing.

The second horn looks like one of Karl Frick's nasty creations of the 60s or 70s.