Cygnet horn question

[USlakeside]

There is currently a phonograph on ebay that looks like it has a wooden music master horn that has been painted over. I emailed the seller and it turns out to be a metal horn but it looks much more like the correct shape of an Edison cygnet horn and not a radio horn. Were there ever metal horns that took the form of the wooden horns?

[Uncle Vanya]

That is a Magnavox R-2 Telemegaphone (radio horn). In the late 'teens and early 'twenties Magnavox adopted a horn design that was very similar to that used by Edison, the parts will even (sort of) interchange. The principal difference between the two is the fastener. The Edison horns use a hook fastener on TOP of the cygnet, whilst the Magnavox horns use a screw fastener on the bottom.

These large Magnavox horn speakers have become quite desirable in their own right. A mint R-2 with the correct base and a good decal can sell for upwards of $600.00. The horn on this machine may have been worth as much as $150.00 to someone looking to complete a Telemegaphone, had not the original black paint and decal been destroyed.