Gramophone Needles!!!

[gramophone78]

I asked the man six times......." any phono stuff around in here??". No!,said the man. Ok, time to move on and look somewhere else.
"I have some needles.Do you like them?".
I guess my answer would be "yes!!!".... .
Too bad the Rexophone tin has some brown paper stuck on it. I have never seen the "Zeppelin" packet before. They were made in Germany for the Mexican market. Nice graphics....I think.

[schweg]

Great Zep, great band too...

[JohnM]

I wonder if the Zeppelin needles are double-ended, hence the name. The graphic of the zeppelin makes the body look like a needle to my eye.

[gramophone78]

John,
you got me thinking. So, I carefuly opened a pack and found they are like all other needles........or so I thought. I could see something printed. Well,to my surprize they are stamped "Zeppelin" . BTW, there are only 50 per pack.

[gramophoneshane]

The Rexophone tin is very interesting (to me anyway). I cant say I've ever seen one before.
I guess they must be German & made between 1914-1917 the same as the records?
I wonder how a product produced for the Australian market ended up in Mehiko.

[syncopeter]

Funny that all packets are loud tone. Is it that they weren't that popular when electric gramophonones came around? For acoustic records you often needed a loud tone needle to be able to get the singer above the surface noise. With electric records a loud tone needle could wear down a record within a handful of plays, particularly with a cheaper older machine.

[gramophone78]

Thanks Shane. I too was very surprized to see this down here. I assumed that Rexophone was mainly or solely sold over in your neck of the woods. After reading what you wrote, I double checked to see if there was a "made in Germany" mark like on the side, etc...However, to my shock it does not say that at all. In fact Shane, on the back of the lid by the hinge it is printed in green......"MADE IN JAPAN".... ??????. I had to take a pic for you to see. Now, does this mean pre-war Japan??. I'm sure it must. A very strange find on the tin.
Did we not all see a while back a Rexophone machine for sale with it's needle tin inside or was it the record brush??. I seem to remember something like that.

[gramophone78]

Syncopeter,
Not sure why that is. I do know that to find needles that are not all rust is hard down here. This group is clean. However, yesterday I found six master boxes that have eight mini master boxes that hold fifty packets of 200 and they were all rusty and junk. They were all "Muza" brand from Poland and all load tone. Ten years ago I bought four master boxes of these that were very clean.
I just did a search on Google and only found one pic of a "Rexophone" tin. The site says that the "Rexola" tins and needles were made in the UK. It seems that the company was short lived. That makes it even more strange that this tin ended up a long way from home. I wish mine was as clean as this one.

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[Roaring20s]

"MADE IN JAPAN"?... Now, does this mean pre-war Japan?

About the above... According to the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, all objects sold in the United States must be marked with the country of origin.

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I like those Zeppelin poppers!

James

[Roaring20s]

To help date the Zeppelin needles...

LZ-121 was built to provide the first international passenger zeppelin service, with plans for scheduled flights between Friedrichshafen, Berlin, and Stockholm. LZ-121 was completed in 1920 and christened Nordstern, but the ship was taken from DELAG by the Military Inter-Allied Commission and delivered to France on June 13, 1921, and renamed Méditerranée.

James.