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it says 1868 on it, i cant remember the writing on it , i would call it a floor model. im starting to think someone messed with and its not really that old, did they even have floor models then? also it doesnt have the big horn on it , on the left side is were you store records, and on the right is the rest. the sound comes out of a big megephone type thing thats sorta built in , with a flat top an bottom? can anyone help, or point me in the right direction, i dont want to haul it to antiques roadshow.
Miller’s Antiques Handbook and Price Guide 2010-2011
it says 1868 on it, i cant remember the writing on it , i would call it a floor model. im starting to think someone messed with and its not really that old, did they even have floor models then? also it doesnt have the big horn on it , on the left side is were you store records, and on the right is the rest. the sound comes out of a big megephone type thing thats sorta built in , with a flat top an bottom? can anyone help, or point me in the right direction, i dont want to haul it to antiques roadshow.
Miller’s Antiques Handbook and Price Guide 2010-2011
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Follow-up RSS Comments Feed or Leave a TrackbackI am not so sure of the 1868 date. The first idea for the phonograph did not happen until 1857 and was called the phonautograph, invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville and patented on March 25, 1857. It could transcribe sound to a visible medium, but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded. It was 20 years later in 1877 that Thomas Edison and another Frenchman, Charles Cros, both working independently, came up with the idea for playback. Edison used only cylinders using tinfoil sheets to record not records. Records were not produced until the 1920s. so like I said, 1868 is suspect. I am not sure what you got. I would have to see a picture to know exactly what you got.
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