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Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:27 pm**

What is this? Is it functional.

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:11 pm**

Where is this photo from?
Note: this may have some info on the original of this model: https://www.calameo.com/read/000452180b2fe038aea2c
As for the replica being functional, I have no idea.

- Bill

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:43 pm**

Lucius1958 wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:11 pm Where is this photo from?
Note: this may have some info on the original of this model: https://www.calameo.com/read/000452180b2fe038aea2c
As for the replica being functional, I have no idea.

- Bill

It was from a live auctioneer auction. That was the only photo and had little info on it.

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:28 am**

Vieta was a famous high quality audio equipment brand from Barcelona, Spain, during the 70s. Their sound gear is much sought after by collectors.

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:40 am**

See on this page :
https://www.phonorama.fr/objets-heteroclites-p4.html

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:32 am**

Babillard wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:40 am See on this page :
https://www.phonorama.fr/objets-heteroclites-p4.html

Thanks.

Phonographe miniature, d'une série de cinq, créée en Espagne par Manuel Olive Sans et commercialisée par la société Vesta en 1965. Celui-ci reproduit à l'échelle ¼ le Lioretgraph Le Babillard. La manivelle située sur le volant régulateur fait tourner le cylindre.

Miniature phonograph, from a series of five, created in Spain by Manuel Olive Sans and marketed by the Vesta company in 1965. This reproduces the Lioretgraph Le Babillard on a ¼ scale. The crank located on the regulating steering wheel turns the cylinder.