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Gilbert No. 77 - $350 CDN about $272 US

Sardis is a southern district of Chilliwack, a city out the Fraser Valley from Greater Vancouver. It is close to the Sumas border crossing into Washington State.

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Interesting machine with a Garrard double spring motor. Very curious tone arm.

Most of the 78 albums with the unit seem to be of the electrical era and not contemporary to the machine.

Some of those sets are Canadian pressings with Canadian labels of American recordings. Interesting in their own right.

Here is a history of Gilbert gramophones :

http://www.gilbert-gramophones.co.uk/history.htm