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This item was recently sold at auction. Although I found this item interesting, the auction was too far away for me to attend. It looks like a Thoren motor inside. I don't understand both the external horn and the front doors. I've seen front doors on internal horn machines, but not both on an external horn machine. Note that the tone arm is not directly connected to the horn unless the plumbing continues under the sink. Is this legit? I lean towards trash, but would like to be wrong.

Trash. This looks like a table model which has lost it's lid and is now masquerading as a "Night and Day" machine.

Pathé made such a machine, with an external horn for daytime use and a small internal one for night time, so as not to upset the neighbours. Here is the real thing :

Thanks for the quick response. It sold for a hammer price of $150. As further evidence of its questionable birth, I note that it seems to have either an 8-inch or ten-inch turntable with no capability to put a larger size record on because both the horn and tone arm prevent that. That would be a major mistake.

I wish there were more genuine European machines over here in the Staes like the one you showed. I find them quite stylish and generally more colorful than US machines.

Trash... The horn comes from an early radio speaker.