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"Pathephonic" machine offered on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/PATHEPHONIC-VICTROL ... 286.c0.m14
Despite the plate reading Brooklyn NY by this time the machine was being made in Plymouth Wisconsin:

"PLYMOUTH RADIO & PHONOGRAPH CO.

One of the most important manufacturing industries in Plymouth is that of the Plymouth Radio & Phonograph company, which started in business in 1919, in the building originally occupied by the veneer company and later Mr. KADE.

The company specializes in manufacturing and selling the Plymouth Super-single radio set and the Pathephonic phonograph. The former is a seven-tube, single dial control radio set, which, by reason of its simple construction and superior workmanship, produces excellent results and has given general satisfaction to all purchasers. The Pathephonic is an unusual instrument, the company holding its own patent of special devices which make this equal to any high class phonograph on the market.

The officers of the company are as follows:

President and general manager - W. H. THOMMEN
Vice-president - H. W. BOLENS
Secretary-Treasurer - F. D. McINTYRE"

I think I'd avoid it, looks like it has been chopped off at the knees..

schweg wrote:I think I'd avoid it, looks like it has been chopped off at the knees..

do you think? it looked pretty intact to me, although I've never seen a Pathé like this before. does it appear to you to have been chopped - feet, legs? I figured it was something like a credenza and that, if it grew any taller, it would be pretty unstable.

brianu wrote:

schweg wrote:I think I'd avoid it, looks like it has been chopped off at the knees..

do you think? it looked pretty intact to me, although I've never seen a Pathé like this before. does it appear to you to have been chopped - feet, legs? I figured it was something like a credenza and that, if it grew any taller, it would be pretty unstable.

Brian,
Perhaps at the ankles. Look at the image of the stretcher -- it is practically sitting on the carpet!

It's possible that the stretcher is very close to the floor and the bottoms of the legs are buried in that 1970's shag carpet.

LOL!

This model is shown in Ron Dethlefson's excellent "Pathé Records and Phonographs in America" book. The cabinet originally had a ball at each corner of the stretcher, similar to the ball feet on the Credenza. It looks like this one is now about three inches shorter than it was when new. The original price was $275 undercuting the Credenza by $25. It came out a year after the Credenza was introduced, so it was late to the party.