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Any Talk-O-Phone experts out there? I bought this yesterday at a Palm Springs antique shop and have no clue on the model. Can anyone help? Thanks, Jerry Blais

Hi Jerry,
Nice machine. You have a generic Talkophone. It looks like a Globe, a Talkophone subsidiary, but no decal. I have this same machine, but as a front mount. After the lawsuits with Columbia, some Talkophone cases were used in the Columbia line. This particular case was used in the very early BN, circa 1907.
Harvey Kravitz

This machine, with its rear mount, was marketed both as the "Globe" and also by the Eagle Talking Machine Co. of Clevelandas the "Eagle". The motors and cainets for the Eagle machines oth appear to have been made in Cleveland, the motors by the White Sewing Machine Co, and the cabinets by the Theo. A. Kundtz firm. The Eagle and Globe Concrns appear in the 1907 Cleveland City Directory, with adjacnt addresses on Canal Street, which addresses incedentally were part of the White factory complex at the time. It may well have been that after Wyant Van Zant Pierce Bradley ran into financial difficulties their suppliers may have attempted to sell some machines on theri own tick.

As I've previously mentioned here, A considerable number of several styles of Talk-O-Phone cabinets turned up complete with decals, but un-drilled for motors in one of the Theo. Kundtz buildings in the early 1970's, along with a quantity of apparently unplayed draler stock Eagle records. The cabinets were dispersed among collectors, and even today occasionally turn up at phonograph sales. I acquired most fo the records, and passed them on to other collectors for between a quarter and a half-dollar each.

Please remember that this was the ' seventies, and I was very young and foolish. Things ar different today. i am no longer young.

Unbranded machine sold as both a Globe and as an Eagle, probably by an affiliate of the White Sewing Macine Company.

i have made a more detailed posting but was not igned in, and so it will have to await moderator approval.

Please remember that this was the ' seventies, and I was very young and foolish. Things ar different today. i am no longer young.

Oh, can I identify with that!

Clay