This model is not known to have been shown in the Gramophone Company's U.K. catalogues, but does appear in those of the German subsidiary as 'De Luxe III'. It was offered at the same price as the 'De Luxe II', the model known in the U.K. as New Melba.
The stand is also difficult to identify, but an identical one exists at EMI, associated with an unidentified but similar gilt-metal mounted gramophone.
The present example is know to have been acquired in the 1930s from EMI, where it had been on display, and it was presumably in the Hayes factory that most of the bright parts were replated in chromium and the winder knob replaced with the then-current black version - a factory reconditioning, in fact. The soundbox would originally have been an Exhibition.
The gilt mounts, cast inwhite-metal, are missing from the front part of the gramophone (apart from a fragment at one corner), but those on both sides are intact. One gilt-metal section is missing from the back of the stand, as is the knob on the door.