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Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 2:53 pm
by Curt A
"Victrola phonograph built into a lamp - absolutely unique antique"
Per seller: "Amazingly unique and rare. Can't find another item like this - let me know if you have seen one! A Victrola phonograph, as shown, embedded into the housing of a lamp. Asian decorative style. Housing/ lamp base that contains the Victrola is metal. Truly unique piece of history!"
Question: Is this real? I am amazed by the seller's description that indicates if they haven't seen one, it must be a unique, rare, historic piece...
I haven't seen one either, but I concluded that it is probably not what it appears to be... although I admit, I may be wrong.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Victrola-phonog ... 25dbdc5de4
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:12 pm
by OrthoFan
I agree, it looks to be a Phonolamp, with a Victor #2 sound box in place of the original. In fact, I spotted this Phonolamp online that looks nearly identical, save for the shade --
(From --
http://phono-fun.com/PHONO-LAMPS/ )
I don't know what the model is.
OF
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:17 pm
by tinovanderzwan
I don't know what the model is.
OF[/quote]
electric phonograph co phonolamp
they also had a large model
tino
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:49 pm
by New Yorker
Wow, the lengths some went to just to disguise a phonograph back in the day. Johnson's idea to hide the horn in a cabinet - i.e. the Victrola - must've really resonated with people.
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:30 pm
by OrthoFan
tinovanderzwan wrote:I don't know what the model is.
OF
electric phonograph co phonolamp
they also had a large model
...
tino
Hi Tino,
Many thanks. I thought, perhaps, there was a model # or name along with the "Phonolamp," but I wasn't sure.
I've often thought these phonographs disguised as lamps would have been right at home situated in the corner of an overly-perfumed room inside a "ladies' establishment," somewhere in the Storyville district of New Orleans, circa 1917.
(That's as close as I can get to making it family-friendly.) 
OF
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:53 pm
by Curt A
With a repeater, you wouldn't have to get up to restart the record... no recordus interruptus...
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:16 pm
by billybob62
HA!!
Re: Phono lamp with a Victrola reproducer... what is this?
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:33 pm
by tinovanderzwan
OrthoFan wrote:tinovanderzwan wrote:I don't know what the model is.
OF
electric phonograph co phonolamp
they also had a large model
...
tino
Hi Tino,
Many thanks. I thought, perhaps, there was a model # or name along with the "Phonolamp," but I wasn't sure.
I've often thought these phonographs disguised as lamps would have been right at home situated in the corner of an overly-perfumed room inside a "ladies' establishment," somewhere in the Storyville district of New Orleans, circa 1917.
(That's as close as I can get to making it family-friendly.)
OF
as to model # I would like to know too there were quite a number of different versions so if anyone has a catalog of these I would like to know
tino