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I am unable to attach pictures as I do not know how to convert the WEBP files in the listing to jpeg.
This is becoming an increasing problem for me now that WEBP seems to be replacing jpeg.

A couple of the pictures.

epigramophone wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:37 pm https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126785295034

I am unable to attach pictures as I do not know how to convert the WEBP files in the listing to jpeg.
This is becoming an increasing problem for me now that WEBP seems to be replacing jpeg.

I find opening the pictures and clicking save on them allows me to then re-open the copy in any software that opens picture files before using the "Save As" option and selecting jpg from drop down menu.

What a beauty!

Good looking and seemingly well built. I have seen Fonotipia portables but never a cabinet model.

This was manufactured by Odeon-Werke, Berlin around the mid-1920s, see the characteristic outline of the "Odeon temple" on the speed regulator.

The pattern of the openwork panel is also typical, see the drawing of a comparative Odeon model.

The asking price has increased to GBP£1043.50 or Best Offer. That should sell it .
Delivery from outside the UK is shown as GBP£33.26. I suspect that the decimal point has been misplaced, as you could not courier the machine within the UK for that amount.
As Starkton says, the machine is an Odeon badged as a Fonotipia, no doubt to give it an air of exclusivity for the Italian market.
In Italy Fonotipia acted as agents for Odeon, and The International Talking Machine Co.m.b.H of Berlin recorded and produced the records of both labels.