Help with Edison Pathé ID please?

[kanders]

Hello all,

Could I please have help to ID this model? I'm mostly interested in which years it would have been made or perhaps the model name so I can look for more info. I just picked it up at an antique store and it had very little information. One of the plates on it said Edison Pathé. There is a serial # on the back that says B18610. Any help would be appreciated. I'm going to try to attach some photos!

[JerryVan]

The "Edison" "Pathé" refers to two special needles required to play Edison and Pathé records. The plate has 2 small holes in which to store those needles. The larger hole would hold an accessory piece that fit between the tonearm and reproducer to allow for playing Edison & Pathé records, in conjunction with those special needles. That plate was used in Silvertone phonographs, sold by Sears Roebuck & Co. Your machine has likely had its original Silvertone tonearm and reproducer replaced at some time. It is also missing its lid.

[kanders]

The "Edison" "Pathé" refers to two special needles required to play Edison and Pathé records. The plate has 2 small holes in which to store those needles. The larger hole would hold an accessory piece that fit between the tonearm and reproducer to allow for playing Edison & Pathé records, in conjunction with those special needles. That plate was used in Silvertone phonographs, sold by Sears Roebuck & Co. Your machine has likely had its original Silvertone tonearm and reproducer replaced at some time. It is also missing its lid.

Thank you!! Do you have any idea on what year/decade this would be from?

[Benjamin_L]

The cabinet is a Sears Silvertone model B-V from 1918. (The tonearm and reproducer are not original, and I have my doubts about the motor.)

[JohnM]

The Edison/Pathé “needles” are more accurately called ‘styli’ (singular ‘stylus’), not ‘needles’; and most accurately the Pathé stylus would be a ‘shank-mounted ball-sapphire stylus’, and the Edison would be a ‘shank-mounted conical-diamond stylus’, The term ‘needle’ implies a temporary, disposable point; the term ‘stylus’ implies a permanently-mounted, jeweled point.

[kanders]

The cabinet is a Sears Silvertone model B-V from 1918. (The tonearm and reproducer are not original, and I have my doubts about the motor.)

WOW. This forum is so amazing. THANKS!!!