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Help with Edison Pathé ID please?
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:36 am
by 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!
Re: Help with Edison Pathé ID please?
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:54 am
by 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.
Re: Help with Edison Pathé ID please?
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:31 am
by kanders
JerryVan wrote: Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:54 am
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?
Re: Help with Edison Pathé ID please?
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:33 pm
by 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.)
Re: Help with Edison Pathé ID please?
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:35 am
by 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.
Re: Help with Edison Pathé ID please?
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:46 am
by kanders
Benjamin_L wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:33 pm
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!!!