What is this ?

[poodling around]

I couldn't work out what the iron contraption is ? It looks adjustable and kind of interesting ..........

Also, is that a Meltrope iv sound-box ?

Anyway:

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 0b4520506d

[Steve]

I couldn't work out what the iron contraption is ? It looks adjustable and kind of interesting ..........

Also, is that a Meltrope iv sound-box ?

Anyway:

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 0b4520506d

No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!

[CarlosV]

No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!

... or a medieval torture instrument.

[poodling around]

I couldn't work out what the iron contraption is ? It looks adjustable and kind of interesting ..........

Also, is that a Meltrope iv sound-box ?

Anyway:

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 0b4520506d

No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!

Ha ha !

Yes, it does look a bit like a two person molar extractor !

[poodling around]

No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!

... or a medieval torture instrument.

........ or a gramophone needle holder for the biggest sound-box in the whole universe !

[IainW]

Looks a bit like a molding plane to me.

[poodling around]

Looks a bit like a molding plane to me.

Interesting, auction houses often include non-gramophone related items so you could be right.

I don't know much about moulding planes but if this is one then it looks very well constructed.

[clevelander]

It's a grooving/moulding plain, probably Stanley.

[poodling around]

It's a grooving/moulding plain, probably Stanley.

Aha ! Thanks clevelander.

I don't know which ones, but I understand that some stanley products are very collectable - so maybe this one is .............

[Steve]

Try explaining that to your wife! "Darling, you know I was after a moulding plane? Well, I found one on Ebay, only it came with some very tatty cheap portable gramophone, allegedly made by Decca, although I don't believe it as their stuff was usually of a high standard!"

"Barney, you haven't started collecting gramophones, have you?"

"Er, no, dearest, if I did I'd go straight for an EMG, not some cheap Decca knock-off, rest assured".