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Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:18 pm
by audiophile102
I was looking through the Boker estate auction catalog when I saw this very unusual machine. Does anyone know anything about this machine? There can't be very many examples like this one. It's just too odd.
- https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=113112#Top
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:49 pm
by Roaring20s
Wow, I like it!
Very minimalist.
James.
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:55 pm
by Jerry B.
I love it. It looks like is was designed by someone who had two jobs. One job was designing phonographs and the other was drawing animated cartoons. Jerry
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:57 pm
by miker2001
Form follows function.
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:19 pm
by gramophone78
audiophile102 wrote:I was looking through the Boker estate auction catalog when I saw this very unusual machine. Does anyone know anything about this machine? There can't be very many examples like this one. It's just too odd.
Tabletop Phonograph.jpg
That's strange...I thought this lot was being offered up through Donley's auction...
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:23 am
by audiophile102
gramophone78 wrote:audiophile102 wrote:I was looking through the Boker estate auction catalog when I saw this very unusual machine. Does anyone know anything about this machine? There can't be very many examples like this one. It's just too odd.
Tabletop Phonograph.jpg
That's strange...I thought this lot was being offered up through Donley's auction...
It is run by Donley's auction services. I found this link from their web page.
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=113112
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:55 pm
by epigramophone
Probably made by the Industria Metalwerkfabrik company, manufacturers of metal horns, in about 1913. A similar machine was marketed by Parlophon, the case of which may also have been made by Industria.
The metal case of the Parlophon was painted to resemble wood grain and an example was preserved in the EMI Collection, sadly dispersed many years ago.
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:14 pm
by Panatropia
That is the greatest thing I've never seen!
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:30 pm
by Wolfe
The machine definitely has a certain panache. I'd be happy to own that.
Re: Quite Unusual Tabletop
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:48 am
by epigramophone
epigramophone wrote:Probably made by the Industria Metalwerkfabrik company, manufacturers of metal horns, in about 1913. A similar machine was marketed by Parlophon, the case of which may also have been made by Industria.
The metal case of the Parlophon was painted to resemble wood grain and an example was preserved in the EMI Collection, sadly dispersed many years ago.
I have now dug out my copy of the EMI Collection catalogue (1974 black and white) and here is the Parlophon :