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Hi just picked this up. Who made it and what is it called? No decal nothing on the reproducer.

It appears to be some sort of Columbia or Columbia client model.

BZH Hornless Talking Machine, built by Columbia. I have one that's similar.

You may find a paper label inside the case...

- Bill

Nice machine.

I had one of these little cuties at one time. The BZH is a client sold for Sears as an Oxford. I think someone said it was a 1912 to 1916 model.

The grill on mine was slightly different. Here is a picture of it--I did not have the whole machine together for some time; this was one I built out of two dead ones. One had a motor and platter but no tonearm; the other had a tonearm and precious little else. On mine the horns were sheet metal painted with oak grain. The No. 6 Columbia reproducer (unmarked) made it a loud & fine-sounding phonograph.

When I restored it I used it awhile & traded it for a floral paint job on the horn of my Columbia BN Graphophone. Then the other carcass (three planks and the iron back bracket, a busted horn, and a baseboard) turned into eventually a bit of oak to help fix a VV-IV with a crushed corner. The VV-IV really deserved a bit of help so I carved out the crunched part & transplanted a chunk of the Oxford. Filled, sanded, stained, and finished, and there's a bit of that dead machine living on in two functional ones.

Thanks' everyone .