The Gramophone Company Style No. 2 hand driven gramophone 1898
Hand-driven gramophone by The Gramophone Company Limited Style No. 2 of 1898 with a Clark and Johnson soundbox and a black tin "witch's hat" horn with gold decoration in "as found" condition. The mechanism functions well (despite the cobwebs), all parts are original. Note that this model did not have a record clamp like all the subsequent clockwork models. It should clean up well if desired. This is the earliest gramophone marketed by The Gramophone Company just prior to the famous trade mark gramophone with the clockwork motor and side brake, launched later the same year. It is however, very much rarer, presumably because far fewer were sold due to the fact that the clockwork model was introduced almost immediately afterwards and the customers for these first gramophones were largely the wealthy Victorian middle class who could afford the extra cost of the clockwork motor driven model. Supplied with this machine one contemporary 7" Berliner record "Morning on the Farm" By N. R. Wood serial number 401 and dated November 1898. It is in very good playable condition with no serious defects, surface scratches very light producing no loud 'clicks' and in its original record sleeve. Base 10.25" (26 cm) x 8.25 (21 cm) overall length with horn 23" (53 cm)
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