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This superbly made cabinet once housed a gramophone of quality, and my guess would be an Algraphone, produced in the mid-1920's by Alfred Graham of Saville Row, London. I cannot imagine how anyone could mistake the wood for oak!

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So what is it? From here, it looks like American black cherry.

On Ebay there are only two cabinet woods: Oak and Cherry.

To be honest, you can't find mahogany furniture in most stores these days & some people have grown up without seeing any.

MAHOGANY? Don't you mean Red Oak? I don't know how many times I've heard that over the years. Or that it's Cherry. Ha!

Henry wrote:So what is it? From here, it looks like American black cherry.

On British machines the choice was usually between oak or mahogany, with oak being the cheaper option. Walnut, a third option in the USA, was rarely used.

I'd say this cabinet is mahogany, albeit a little faded.

This inside photo of the horn door is a dead giveaway that this is mahogany. Most mahogany phonographs in the U.S. look dark, so the color of this is different, but there is bleached blonde mahogany. The doors remind me of the doors on my Edisonic Beethoven, which are quarter-sawn butt mahogany. I also own a 1949 Philco console in bleached mahogany and a 1920s bed by Berkey and Gay that is a beautiful bleached mahogany.