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A friend of mine recently won this machine in an auction from the U.K. It has an after market attachment to convert the Edison Standard into
a back mount machine. thought i would share a few pictures.

Sorry about the skewed pictures. I checked them to see if they were uploaded correctly and they were. However when I hit submit the Forum program rotates them??

Wonderful, and very rare!

Best,
Fran

Love to have one. Jerry B.

Nice find. The decal really adds to it. The cabinet beneath it and neighboring machines look great too.

Good heavens! First a third example of the Devineau Biophone attachment surfaces and then this rare Phon-Arm? Maybe I need to go shopping and dress up my Fireside a little bit.

No seriously, that's an extremely rare part for an Edison Standard, and it looks like you found one in great shape. Wish I had some weird stuff to trade around for one!

By the way, either that is an Edison Recorder in the carriage, or his reproducer is missing the tailweight.

Am I right to assume this attachment was made in U.S.A.?

The reason I ask is because I have an Edison Home with a similar attachment of a different design which is apparently of German manufacture.

Pete, here are threads on these....
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21940&p=130700&hili ... rm#p130700
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34220&p=203874&hili ... rm#p203874

gramophoneshane wrote:Am I right to assume this attachment was made in U.S.A.?

The reason I ask is because I have an Edison Home with a similar attachment of a different design which is apparently of German manufacture.

Yes Shane these were made (or at least sold) out of Chicago for a very short time.

Thanks Wayne.
I thought it was but couldn't find the previous threads using the search function for some reason, so was unsure.

Here is my thread to the auction catalogue viewtopic.php?f=14&t=42912