What is this?

[Hogan]

It certainly looks like a (German?) HMV, with the recording angel, but those sculpted sides in metal... ? Could it have left the factory like this?

[Roaring20s]

Here's another to look at. It has dealer plate from St. Petersburg. This seller does not know what is either.

https://www.dvaveka.ru/patefony-i-grammofony/starinnyy-grammofon-s-dekorativnymi-nakladkami-pishushchiy-amur-derevo-rossiya-nach-20-v/ 

 

James.

[Hogan]

That´s really interesting! It´s the same machine, the relieve on the sides is identical and the box, the wood... so it´s probably a russian HMV then! I can´t read russian so I don´t know what the seller says about it! In all probability it left the factory exactly like this! Thanks for the link! 

 

Here are a couple of pictures of the russian gramophone for posterity!

Edited 15 hours ago by Hogan
I forgot to attach the pictures