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Please help deciphering this data plate
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:24 pm
by Carl
This is from an Odeon portable phonograph.
Can someone tell me what it means?
Thank you
* I don't know why pictures are 90° off and so large *
Re: Please help deciphering this data plate
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:49 pm
by tomb
It could be possible for ordering replacement parts . I have one on one of my phonographs too.
Re: Please help deciphering this data plate
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:58 pm
by Inigo
This is an Odeon portable model 9102 Light Blue made by EMI. These and the latter Columbia 9000 and lower HMV models all in this style (fat tonearm, all metal soundbox, modernization motors, etc) were descendants of the flagship portable HMV 102, where this numbering system has a dating clue in the prefix of the serial number: B means 1936, and B|xx means 1936+xx. IF this was applied also to the other portables it means that this Odeon B|12 was the number 22861 of the series made during 1948.
Re: Please help deciphering this data plate
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 11:53 am
by Carl
Inigo wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:58 pm
This is an Odeon portable model 9102 Light Blue made by EMI. These and the latter Columbia 9000 and lower HMV models all in this style (fat tonearm, all metal soundbox, modernization motors, etc) were descendants of the flagship portable HMV 102, where this numbering system has a dating clue in the prefix of the serial number: B means 1936, and B|xx means 1936+xx.
IF this was applied also to the other portables it means that this Odeon B|12 was the number 22861 of the series made during 1948.
Thank you. Why the heck the brain tease coding for something simple. CHEERS!