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Can someone please provide information on the Graphophone in photos. It appears to be a toy 78 player made of tinplate, previous owner purchased it in 1918. Thanks for any information. Regards.

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This machine is not known to be listed in Columbia's U.S. catalogs, and rarely surfaces here.  Hopefully someone will know something about it, but in the meantime, here's a page scan from A World of Antique Phonographs, by Fabrizio & Paul (All Rights Reserved).  Click on image once or twice to enlarge/sharpen:

 

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Neilvanstem
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Nifty machine I think. Neil

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Thank you phonogfp for the reply and information. This explains why I have not been able to turn up any info on the web, some of my post was lost in transmisslon, however I am so happy to receive your reply. The suggestion that this machine may have been made in Germany could have some credibility seeing that in that era they manufactured a lot of tinplate toys. 

Thank you once again .  

Regards  Schulz (Rob, Australia)

 

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You're very welcome, Rob.  Hopefully, someone with more detailed information will chime in too.

 

George P.

KimberlyPayne
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An interesting thing, I remember I once met it in San Francisco at the market, where the seller asked a fabulously low price for it, but I could not take it :C That was at 2011

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I just want to add to my original post that there is Factory 17 lightly stamped on the base of the machine . Maybe this may help further ID.

Regards  Schulz (Rob Aus.)

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