The Algraphone was a high-quality cabinet gramophone introduced after the First World War by Alfred Graham & Company. This firm had made its name in the manufacture and supply of loudspeaking telephone systems for use in ships and for divers, and would become known to a wider public in the later 1920s for its Amplion radio loudspeakers.

The gramophones were made in an astonishing range of period style cabinets, incorporating the company's own motors and soundboxes, with a West End showroom in Savile Row. A 1922 price list shows 68 cabinet models (without the slightly later 'Sonat' table models and 'Algrette' bijou cabinets). The list shows two console models in oriental lacquer: the O94 at 120 Guineas, and the M153 at 275 Guineas. The 'M' indicates that this was part of the 'Masterpiece' series, and although no details are given, a footnote for this and two upright versions offers the customer a choice of background colour and panel design. It seems likely that this is an M153, given its size and elaboration (the O94 being part of the 'Occasional' series, not a word that suits a gramophone of such size).