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When I got my fist talking machine, I was completely unaware of the seemingly infinite number of brand names that machines were made or sold under.

Once I started looking at CL and FBM listings, I found something I had never seen before every other day or so.

Then things began to settle down to a complacent sense of "Well I guess there is nothing new to see."

Wrong. Very wrong. It seems that if you keep looking there is always something new to see.

For example, this Audiola machine popped up here on FBM. I can find no information about this brand at all.
It is not listed in this catalog of "Ola" machines: https://phonographia.com/Factola/Factol ... nition.htm

And I cannot read the cursive script above the Audiola logo.

Does anyone know anything about this brand?

In 1925, a Danish company stopped whatever they had been doing before and switched all their production over to manufacturing radios under the Audiola label. Perhaps what they had been doing before was manufacturing talking machines. However, I can find no indication that this was so.

Samick AUDIOLA ???
Samick is a piano brand...
No.. it is absurd...
There are no better images of the logo or a data plate?

Inigo wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:54 am There are no better images of the logo or a data plate?

No. There are only two photographs and only one of them has the lid open.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Vmx2tmntd/

I contacted the seller. He says that the cursive script above the Audiola logo reads Frenwick.

He also says that there are no other markings on the machine.

There might be something under the platter?

Markings on the speed control plate:

Lah Ca wrote: Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:00 pm I contacted the seller. He says that the cursive script above the Audiola logo reads Frenwick.

He also says that there are no other markings on the machine.

There might be something under the platter?

I'm pretty sure it's "Fenwick" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_( ... ent_store) ) . That would make sense, since this is a generic style gramophone, typical in styling of many "off-brand" models that were sold in the UK during the late 1920s/early 1930s by department and music stores. All of the ones I've seen have the record storage compartment inside the cabinet, on the left side of the player compartment, and use Swiss-made components. I used to have one, very similar in design, with a "MasterTone" logo decal on the lid.

Here's another example -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1084537 ... 912280011/

OrthoFan wrote: Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:39 am
I'm pretty sure it's "Fenwick" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_( ... ent_store) ) . That would make sense, since this is a generic style gramophone, typical in styling of many "off-brand" models that were sold in the UK during the late 1920s/early 1930s by department and music stores. All of the ones I've seen have the record storage compartment inside the cabinet, on the left side of the player compartment, and use Swiss-made components. I used to have one, very similar in design, with a "MasterTone" logo decal on the lid.

Here's another example -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1084537 ... 912280011/

Thank you!