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FBM: What is this curious machine?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 1:06 pm
by Lah Ca
This appears to be a curious drawer mounted small cabinet machine. Does anybody know what it is?
I am also a bit confused by the cabinet construction. One side looks like it has a desk-like foot/leg well.
https://www.facebook.com/share/192DbqCaDy/
Re: FBM: What is this curious machine?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 1:41 pm
by JerryVan
A Columbia Regent desk phonograph.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... ORM=VAMGZC
Useless as a desk and a fairly poor and unwieldly phonograph. Oh, and it's also homely.
Re: FBM: What is this curious machine?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 1:55 pm
by Lah Ca
It looks smaller than the older unit that Mark is exhibiting in the video; however, we do not get good picture in the ad. So I assume there must have been a number of different sizes?
Re: FBM: What is this curious machine?
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 10:46 am
by Lah Ca
Somehow this post, intended as single thread, ended up unravelling into two strands. The site was unresponsive a little when I first posted, and I ended up with two identical posts without noticing. The two have gone off in their own directions.
The other strand is here:
viewtopic.php?t=62314