Edison B-250

[brianu]

another machine once posted elsewhere, the edison B-250... favorite feature is that burgundy colored motor board...

[EdisonSquirrel]

What a beautiful Edison phonograph! The motorboard is indeed handsome. I note that the B-250 has the same two drawers for records that I have in my C-250.

Rocky

[WDC]

Really a beautiful machine and the motorboard is really nice. I wonder why they did not use that color as a regular one. It could have made all of the other machines a lot nicer too.

[richardh]

Ive neve seen a light colored uprught before, I thought they only came in black!

WDC, your right they look much better in this shade. Brian, thanks for posting this, that is a great machine.

RJ

[brianu]

thanks...

this is actually at this point the only edison disc player that I own... at one time I had about 10, but all the rest were sold over the past year (actually more than 40 machines total sold during that period) as part of this down-sizing I've been trying to do in order to make the move to a smaller place more easily achieved (from a full house to something more like a condo a third or less that size)... now if I could only sell the house in this market so that these chains will let go...

[Neophone]

RJ,

I think it was only the earliest DD phonographs that had the maroon bed-plate. I'll have to check Frow to see if he has a note on that as well as anything about the model plate. Brian yet again-a beautiful specimen! Thank you for sharing it. I think when I get the hang of this new layout and we start organizing the content, we'll make this batch of you machine posts the first Featured Phonographs. At this rate we won't need out old content from ProBoards.

Regards,
John

[Nipper Dog]

I have a Edison B250, It has long and short play Gearing and long play reproducer and a short gearing reproducer. I only own one long play record they are hard to find . It is a beutiful machine we injoy it very much

[hillndalefan]

The A- and B- 250s had the ID tag at the rear center. The B-line was an intermediate step in the design of the Edison Disc Phonograph, and when the C-line was introduced in 1915, they went for standardization of every model, just as they did with the Amberolas, so the Maroon motor board disappeared. I agree, the Maroon is really nice. Some of the early Amberolas also had a Maroon or Brown motorboard paint job.

[Valecnik]

I have a Edison B250, It has long and short play Gearing and long play reproducer and a short gearing reproducer. I only own one long play record they are hard to find . It is a beutiful machine we injoy it very much

Please post some pictures if you are able! I've never seen a B250 with a long play mechanism. That's got to be quite rare. Apparently the original owner kept it up to date and used it from 1915 or so up until at least 1926 or later.