Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
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Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Is there anyone who can help me to identifying this gramophone.
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Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
British Zonophone "Compton" circa 1909/10.
At first I thought it was sitting on a pedestal which had had it's legs amputated, but as it appears to have carrying handles it is probably just a record storage box.
At first I thought it was sitting on a pedestal which had had it's legs amputated, but as it appears to have carrying handles it is probably just a record storage box.
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Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Thank you for the help 

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Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
This model usually has a logo on the front of the cabinet in green and gold saying
Compton
Zonophone
Compton
Zonophone
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Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Absolutely correct. I had this machine and my example had the decal.US PHONO wrote:This model usually has a logo on the front of the cabinet in green and gold saying
Compton
Zonophone
Looking at the current example it appears the front panel of the cabinet has been polished over or had the original finish gently rubbed down / dissolved to re-amalgamate it. There is a darker rectangular area in the centre which is often a tell-tale sign of a cabinet having been gone over. It's possible the original decal dried out and flaked off (my example was starting to do this, hence why it left the building!) in parts and a previous owner, wanting to tidy the appearance up, dissolved the finish and re-worked it over the front to remove the remaining traces of the decal?