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Granted, this is a rarely found Phonopostal card frame... BUT... what do you do with it?
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/114179122774?mk ... olid=10001

Even if you glued it back together, the pot metal that remains looks like it's going to self destruct at any time...

Curt A wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 7:36 am Granted, this is a rarely found Phonopostal card frame... BUT... what do you do with it?

Phonopostal 1.jpg

Phonopostal 2.jpg

What was done with it ?

Nothing... this is how they listed it for sale...

Curt A wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 7:41 am Nothing... this is how they listed it for sale...

I think he means, what was it used for originally. That would be my question as well.

It is the recording frame for a PhonoPostal phonograph that allowed you to record messages on a postcard and mail it to a friend, who also had a PhonoPostal machine to play it back on... an early version of email...

Wow, very cool! Thanks Curt!

At 18;18 begins a description of the technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pxfnKQf28M

And at 10:40 there is another broken frame.
Interesting video, thanks.

I wonder if anyone would make reproductions of those?Couldn't hurt to find out. edisonplayer

edisonplayer wrote: Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:33 am I wonder if anyone would make reproductions of those?Couldn't hurt to find out. edisonplayer

Since the machines are a needle in a haystack find - only four known in North America and two owned by the guy who did the previous video - I would conclude that the market for repro frames would be infinitesimal to non-existent... Meaning unprofitable to pursue...