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Here is a strange little curiosity.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/9398886 ... A939888626

Despite being played with by children, these machines survive in respectable numbers.

http://www.gramophones.info/gramophones ... ed%20child.

Here is mine :

epigramophone wrote: Sat Mar 25, 2023 5:13 am Despite being played with by children, these machines survive in respectable numbers.
Here is mine :

Cool. Thank you for sharing.

They must be reasonably well made to survive the ordeal of unsupervised use by children. Or perhaps they were things like automaton wind-up figures, expensive toys which sat on shelves out of reach and only came down for supervised use.

Here is one being demonstrated by a Swiss collector. I don't know if wow and flutter was endemic to them when new, but with the small motor and small governor and with age and use, there is such now.

https://youtu.be/mCztbD7emgk

I have the metal case for one.edisonplayer.