With expiration of many key PATENTS and end of World War 1 ,---any companies were able to enter talking machine business post war. Many offerings were marginal, but some unusual types like this were both elegant and good sounding. Their manufactured deservedly could have survived (like builders of this elegant and good sounding machine) but for two events. 1> Radio emergence made consumers spend their money on radios not on new record players. 2>Electric recording and play back favored the new radio makers line of combined devices Radio-Phonographs or in UK Radiograms, freezing out old-type PHONOGRAPH firms. Also there were need of licensing patents covering new truck from GE, ATT, Victor, Westinghouse etc. (Needless to say the older talking machine firms now had new patents to keep out newcomers, so only a few like Emerson survived.)
Too bad this company didn't survive as many old line makers sold machines that looked like MACHINES and not furniture, and many others made nice L00KING phoñographs with poor sound. This company made devices that L00KED +and more important) PLAYED well.
Beautiful!
Made here in Johnstown, PA. The factory building still stands with an historical marker in the Ferndale neighborhood. Your example is quite fine.
The phonograph sounds great.
Muchas,gracias por compartir tan" Magneficiencia de un legado histórico como esté hermoso objeto.Saludos desde Chile ......
With expiration of many key PATENTS and end of World War 1 ,---any companies were able to enter talking machine business post war. Many offerings were marginal, but some unusual types like this were both elegant and good sounding. Their manufactured deservedly could have survived (like builders of this elegant and good sounding machine) but for two events.
1> Radio emergence made
consumers spend their
money on radios not on
new record players.
2>Electric recording and
play back favored the
new radio makers line
of combined devices
Radio-Phonographs or
in UK Radiograms,
freezing out old-type
PHONOGRAPH firms.
Also there were need
of licensing patents
covering new truck
from GE, ATT, Victor,
Westinghouse etc.
(Needless to say the older talking machine firms now had new patents to keep out newcomers, so only a few like Emerson survived.)
Too bad this company didn't survive as many old line makers sold machines that looked like MACHINES and not furniture, and many others made nice L00KING phoñographs with poor sound.
This company made devices that L00KED +and more important) PLAYED well.