"Phonospace" or "How Do You Display Your Collection?"

[phonogfp]

Thanks, Bruce!

 

[Kiwiatlarge]

On 1/25/2025 at 9:08 AM, Valecnik said:

That's really a beautiful combination George.

Lovely horn.  Here is my Tin Tray Company  Victor horn in Paris green.  Worn like many of them.  I don't display it much because I like the H&S blue/green one a bit better.

Edited January 27 by Kiwiatlarge

[phonogfp]

Very nice - both of them!

 

George P.

[CurtA]

That's what I'm talking about... beautiful !   Just don't lick it...

[Andersun]

I guess you can call me a narrow minded Edison collector. I keep the number at about 18 +/- 2 machines. I use the dining room for most of my machines. Have a few others scattered around the house. The only non-Edison is an Aretino Machine which was obtained by my Great Grandmother. I just completed the Eclipse after a 6 year search for a cabinet and ballast resistors. The marroon Gems are both Model E types. The one on the left is a normal Model E and the one on the right is a International Correspondence School (ICS) Model E geared only to play 2 minute language cylinders at 160 RPMs.

Thanks for looking,

Steve

[phonogfp]

Steve, you really should add a Polyphone to your collection someday!😁

 

A stunning collection of unusual Edisons. Those two Model E Gems are quite a pair.  (I'm kicking myself for not buying a Model E Gem offered by Gregg Cline at Schaumburg in 2022.)  You really like the early stuff, which is right up my alley.

 

Thanks for posting your beautiful collection!

 

George P.

[ducretet]

My collection is smaller. It consists mainly of radios and phonographs. 

[phonogfp]

A very impressive collection, Ducretet! 

 

I'd be grateful to see a picture of this machine's belt cover, and any other views of the machine.

 

Thanks,

George P.

[ducretet]

Thanks George
What machine are you referring to?

Ferran

[phonogfp]

Ooops!  I have a 2 year-old grandson running around me...!

 

[ducretet]

😂😂😂

 

I'm attaching the photos. You'll tell me...

[phonogfp]

Beautiful!  Is "7090" stamped on the lower edge of the right-hand stanchion?  Can I ask for one more picture?  The underside of the legged base?

 

Thanks very much!

 

George P.

[ducretet]

I have looked carefully to see if the serial number was stamped, without success. I am attaching more photographs.

 

I have put the three Eagles together on the same shelf.
The one on the left is a BXP, the one in the middle is an Eagle with a Hawthorne i Sheble case and sold by Eastern Talking Machine and the one on the right could be a BXP, since it is polished and nickel plated, but without a case. The serial number is stamped on the strap cover.
I need to find the simplest Eagle. The B with a Columbia case.

 

[phonogfp]

Ducretet,

 

Thanks so much for the additional pictures. 

 

The machine in question is a very rare "New Parlor" talking machine sold in 1899 by the Talking Machine Company in Chicago, Illinois.  It's only the 3rd example I've been able to document.  An article on this machine appeared in the March 2024 issue of the APS magazine.

 

The number I was wondering about may be stamped here:

 

 

The two examples I've documented thus far have the last 4 digits of the serial number stamped there.

 

Congratulations on having found such a rare variant!

 

George P.

[ducretet]

It is not stamped in the place you indicate. (?????) It also does not have the stamped plate at the end of the chuck.
This is logical. They did not start to be made from serial number 146,500.
Therefore my machine is older than the one you indicate in the photograph. What is the serial number? It would have to be higher than 146,500.
Thank you.

[phonogfp]

Since yours is only the 3rd example of the "New Parlor" to be publicly examined, I'm not surprised to find a marking variation - especially since yours is a "Type 1" Eagle and the other two are "Type 2."

 

Keep in mind that the mandrel tag appeared at approximately No.146,500.  Any Eagle near that number might have had an original mandrel tag.  I'm always on the lookout to narrow the cusps when production features appeared, but the Eagle's mandrel tag appears in my database somewhere between No.145,678 and No.146,572.  In my writing, I chose "approximately 146,500" as a somewhat arbitrary number that collectors could more easily remember.

 

The "New Parlor" I showed above (along with the other known example) is a "Type 2" Eagle. My example (shown) is No.151,902. The other is No.153,024.

 

Thanks again for sharing your information!

 

George P.