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Here are two items you rarely see that I just picked up.I love the "brass" funnel horn and the ladys look like they are having a good time.Where are the guys?????!!!! .The doctor at the sheep station in the outback must have used his Gramophone to keep the sheep from going nuts.

Perhaps the ladies may have imbibed a little Vin Mariani or pre-Pure Food & Drug Act Coca-Cola to be whoopin' it up and climbing the furniture like that! Can't be all bad, though . . . after all, even TAE endorsed Vin Mariani.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani

John,no kidding.It looks like the good doctor could have used a nip....per two himself..... .However,it looks like he was well stocked on the wall.I could sure use that black funnel horn.It looks like new... .

By the looks of the doctor, he may have used the sheep to keep himself from going nuts!

Too bad there wasn't a Berliner Owner Singles facebook page back then . . . perhaps the doctor could have hooked up with one of the ladies at the party!

Great items, btw . . . thanks for sharing 'em.

JohnM wrote:Perhaps the ladies may have imbibed a little Vin Mariani or pre-Pure Food & Drug Act Coca-Cola to be whoopin' it up and climbing the furniture like that! Can't be all bad, though . . . after all, even TAE endorsed Vin Mariani.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani

That was my thoughts exactly!

I love the aussie heights of fashion in the second one too. Those "decorative" shelf and mantle borders, cut from daggy old newspapers, appear to have been very popular over here.
I hope you guys had better taste than us

If the good doctor hasn't the sense to put the horn on the machine, then he deserves to be alone.

Retrograde wrote:If the good doctor hasn't the sense to put the horn on the machine, then he deserves to be alone.

I guess he had to use something when refilling the empty whiskey bottles with cold tea.

I'm going to get shot for this......Tink!!!,don't even think about it.However,I think it would be safe to say that the good doctor was NOT Greek by birth :shock:I'm sure the sheep were relieved about that

Retrograde wrote:If the good doctor hasn't the sense to put the horn on the machine, then he deserves to be alone.

I think the doctor isolates himself from the freaking out ladies next door by using earphones. The tubes are lying on the table and the open wooden needle container to the left of the machine shows that the gramophone is/ was just in use.

Great cards. Did you buy them together and are they postmarked?

Starkton,like you I too thought it was a tube coming from the doctors machine.However,after a careful look. I think it is the horn support wire.Yes,that is a cool wooden needle box.It does gives us a better idea of what a pre-1900 needle box looks like.As for posted marks.......well,they are in the mail as we speak.So,I will know soon.A good friend was also wanting these to go with two that he has.One is of two very young African black boys very under nourished but happy to see the "New Toy" Berliner trade-mark.That card is post marked 1905 and the horn is already trashed.These would make great small posters.BTW,is there anyone that can determine what that thing is on the table next to the machine??.It has three things coming out of the top.Anyone???????.