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I found this pair in a box of cylinders I bought recently. Does anyone know what machine they belong to, or if they are aftermarket?

Columbia, looks pretty early , would like to see the stylus side, and do they have glass or mica diaphragms. I have a recorder like that that is stamped AT.

Gutta Percha reproducer

For early Columbia models like, F, G, K, N, A (Washington)

A great find, it'll pay for your records many times over if you decide to sell.

Chuck

Very nice find in a box of cylinders! The Reproducer is gutta percha - manufactured only until July/August 1897. It would be appropriate on any of the Bell-Tainter derived Graphophones, the Baby Grand, the Type N, the Type N coin-op, or an early Type A (with Washington markings). Check the underside of the Recorder - sometimes they're marked but usually not. In any event, it's aluminum and manufactured from 1897-ca.1905. Congratulations - - wish I had found that in my last box of cylinders!

George P.

VERY nice find! Never found anything quite that cool in a box of cylinders.

Congratulations.

As requested here are the flip sides of the reproducers.

Reminds me of a local farm auction I attended a few years ago, with an average Edison Standard B and a box of below-average black wax cylinders.

Before the auctioneer started bids on the box of cylinders, he pulled out a box of cylinders from under the podium and announced that whoever had the high bid on the black wax cylinders would also get the box of worthless cylinders he held in his hand. Those cylinders, he said, were of no value because they had no core. I went up to look in the box and it contained about six Pink Lamberts.

I won the black wax cylinders for about $75 and he gave me the box of “worthless” cylinders.

Congratulations, this is really a very good find. A functional gutta percha reproducer will usually sell for several hundred dollars. Yours is just missing the little center piece, that connects the bar with the diaphragm. AFAIK, these might be available from one of the known spare part dealers.

Great find! I had to buy a second Type N to get the wooden box and the gutta percha reproducer. As it happened, serial numbers of both machines are closely together.