拍品 70
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A Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd Melba gramophone with G & T Exhibition soundbox on gooseneck tone-arm, twelve-inch rigid turntable with rubber mat, triple-spring bevel drive motor, ebonised case with embossed brass lunettes of a female head in scrolling Art Nouveau surround, polygonal brass corner columns and early black Morning Glory horn

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A Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd Melba gramophone with G & T Exhibition soundbox on gooseneck tone-arm, twelve-inch rigid turntable with rubber mat, triple-spring bevel drive motor, ebonised case with embossed brass lunettes of a female head in scrolling Art Nouveau surround, polygonal brass corner columns and early black Morning Glory horn

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拍品專文

The Melba headed the G & T range of machines in the 1904-6 period, and was unique in the company's first twenty-five years of existence in adopting contemporary avant-garde styling. Both the flowing lines of the embossed panels and the wide, very plain mouldings are typical of the Aesthetic Movement of the 1890-1910 era. The panels and columns were described as gilt in catalogues of the period.