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I know the reproducer is an Edison, but I can't remember seeing one exactly like this - it's brass and has a thicker than normal neck and an odd weight on the bottom. I'm sure one of our Edison experts can identify it, even though there is no serial number evident on it. The wording around the outside says: "REPRODUCER Sold by Thomas A Edison, Inc. Licensed for use only on Edison phonographs.

I am fairly certain that I have seen something like the second item, although I am not sure if it is phonograph related even though it was in a box of phono parts - what is it?

Surely someone knows what the Edison reproducer is and what machine it's for...

Gosh - - not everyone checks in here every 10 minutes...!

The Reproducer looks very much like that used for Edison Business Phonographs/Ediphones. The weight is a bit different from the examples I have, but the tube plate looks the same.

I can't help with the other mystery part...

George P.

Thanks, George... I thought everyone here was always online....

phonogfp wrote:Gosh - - not everyone checks in here every 10 minutes...!

The Reproducer looks very much like that used for Edison Business Phonographs/Ediphones. The weight is a bit different from the examples I have, but the tube plate looks the same.

I can't help with the other mystery part...

George P.

I believe that this is a school reproducer. Edison made in the 1930's a special reproducer with an extra heavy weight for use on transcription machine in business schools. They were intended to play the celluloid Blue Amberol dictatin records. My mother, who learned transcription in the business program at West High School in Cleveland in the 1930's remembered that her teacher had a macine at her desk which was connected to tubes which ran under the floor to each desk, where there was a pair of hearing tubes. The ordinary Ediphone reproducer would not produce the requisite volume.

The other piece looks like a crane socket sometimes found on small machines like the Gem, Eagle, etc. where it simply attaches to an existing screw. But I can't tell from the picture if the diameter of the opening is big enough. (It would be for a very thin crane such as was used on the Gem B through E.)

TinfoilPhono wrote:The other piece looks like a crane socket sometimes found on small machines like the Gem, Eagle, etc. where it simply attaches to an existing screw. But I can't tell from the picture if the diameter of the opening is big enough. (It would be for a very thin crane such as was used on the Gem B through E.)

It's definitely not the Hawthorne & Sheble crane socket for the Gem. They were cast iron, rounded at the bottom, and painted black.

George P.

Thanks for all of the information. My thought was that the second part was a horn crane socket, and since there is a small two piece crane in that box of parts, I believe that is what it is. In fact, I tried it on my Columbia Model A and it works with the screw that originally held the listening tube manifold...