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With a little help from Wyatt's Musical, I was able to get the parts to rebuild the Heineman motor and the Pathé Concert reproducer (did the work myself). Some had requested a video, so here it is.
This is an oddball, it's an Actuelle case, factory modified for the horn you see in the video. I'm not sure what material the horn is made of but would guess that it's plaster.

All that's left for it's restoration is to figure out how to setup a lid prop-rod for it. Every other Pathé I've seen has one on the left, this has it on the right and is missing pieces.

So far total investment has been ~$200.

https://youtu.be/_czfUSWk8A0

Thanks for sharing the video.

Pathé called those oval horns "Pathol" horns. See this discussion elsewhere on the forum:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ol#p147600

Ralph

Is that the normal orientation for a Pathé reproducer, or does it rotate to play lateral cut records?

RAK402 wrote:Is that the normal orientation for a Pathé reproducer, or does it rotate to play lateral cut records?

That's the lateral position. For verticals, the diaphragm faces forward, perpendicular to the record.

Thank you, sir!