拍品專文
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
細節
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)
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)