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Model 1, I could not find it on the forum, and again add it for reference. The model number itself makes it interesting to own it.
I was on a gramophone trip yesterday, and paid for this up front two weeks ago, and collected it yesterday. It was not expensive, and I wanted to save it from
someone possibly going to have fun with it etc.
I checked with the HMG book, to verify the model number. It has an early internal threaded early winding handle, wooden horn, letter code is LBO, where I remember L stands for Hornless, O for oak..and B....? It also has the second edition of the Exhibition soundbox.
Manufacturing year..before 1918 I would presume, because of the soundbox and maybe even pre 1915 taking into consideration the winding handle. Maybe someone can pinpoint it more.

Guy! The lower label has a stamp that says MARCH 31 1914!

Aha. So you found one of the rarer variants of this model. I have several No. 1's and one of mine is similar to yours. Its a real train spotting thing but I wonder if anyone can spot the odd anomaly here? Well done!

PS - where was the original retailer based? That's possibly a clue!

Inigo, I need glasses.
Steve..please explain "train spotting", for us non English speakers.
Anomaly...I was at first expecting a canon break, but they stopped using them around 1912 I guess.
The Dennison speed control fits the 1914 production...

The anomaly...looking forward to know about it!

The retailer was based in a small Norwegian town, the plaque here tells about it...Gjøvik Norway.

Ok.......train spotting is a term sometimes used as a pejorative term in Britain to describe the often dull and boring activity of learned people who pour over the minutiae of very specialised subject matter.

People otherwise known in English slang as "anoraks". The word originates from the Greenlandic "annoraaq".
It's original meaning was and still is a type of hooded coat. Not a Scandinavian word, but close .

If you haven’t already guessed it the motor board isn’t a single piece construction but made from 4 mitred jointed sections with square central piece

As far as I know this detail only exists in export models or tropical variants on the small Model 1.

I have a colonial version with fitted teak trunk.

Thanks for sharing that, Steve. I had no idea there was an export version of this machine.

nostalgia wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:59 am Thanks for sharing that, Steve. I had no idea there was an export version of this machine.

Yes indeed and you now have one