A Picnic Compact portable gramophone,

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A Picnic Compact portable gramophone,
with demountable tone-arm, internal horn and black cloth-covered case -- 11in. (28cm.) wide (soundbox replaced); a 1911 Zonophone Coronation puzzle record; and two later special records, 1935 (Eclipse) and 1937 (REX) (4)

Lot Essay

Although it carries no name, this gramophone was described as 'Picnic Compact' in the 1913 catalogue of the Army & navy Stores. It is one of the earliest cloth-covered portables with integral carrying handle

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