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I am selling an Edison 1929 P-1 portable phonograph, arguably the Edison company's last phonograph, along with the cheaper Edison P-2 and the large console, the 1929 Edison C-4 radio/phono. This portable was made to play the new Edison Needle-cut records. It doesn't play Edison diamond discs. The motor has been gone through and the spring cleaned and re-greased. The rare reproducer has unusual Art Deco design.
Below is the description for the P-1 in Frow's The Edison Disc Phonographs, c. 1982:

P-1 Needle Type Portable
Horn: Of new design with an air-column length of 53 ½ in. from soundbox to mouth and claimed to be the longest horn in any portable – ‘the new principle reflex horn”. The ball bearing tone arm had an exponential characteristic.
Soundbox: The body is usually found in ‘pot-metal’, the diaphragm of aluminum with a wire screen at the inside of the connector joint (…)
Motor: Double-spring playing three records without re-winding. Automatic Stop
Case: Wooden, covered inside and out with Dupont fabrikoid, blue or green Spanish grain being reported. Record holder in the lid. The metal parts finished in gilt

Price for this rare portable is just $350 plus shipping.

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Mike Sorter
Riverside, CA

I have a P-1 that I got years ago from Jerry Donnell,but it doesn't have the correct tonearm and arm support.I'd be interested if someone had a P-1 they were parting out.edisonplayer

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If it wasn't 5,300 miles away that P-1 would already be portable number 26 in my collection . I doubt that one exists here in the UK.