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Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:19 am
by 78monarch
Is there anyone who can help me to identifying this gramophone.
Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:59 am
by epigramophone
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.
Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:51 am
by 78monarch
Thank you for the help
Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:43 pm
by US PHONO
This model usually has a logo on the front of the cabinet in green and gold saying
Compton
Zonophone
Re: Need help to identifying horn gramophone.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:09 am
by Steve
US PHONO wrote:This model usually has a logo on the front of the cabinet in green and gold saying
Compton
Zonophone
Absolutely correct. I had this machine and my example had the decal.
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?