A Kaemmer & Reinhardt Berliner Gramophone,

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A Kaemmer & Reinhardt Berliner Gramophone,
with brass travelling arm, horn support, 5-inch turntable, record clamp, pillar support, fly wheel, drive wheel and soundbox with steel diapragm with patent dates to 1890, beech base with ovolo moulding, threaded stud for record storage or listening globe and Parkins & Gotto, Oxford St. W. retailers' label -- 14in. (35.5cm.) wide, (restored; now with modern brass horn and elbow) circa 1890, with three 5-inch Berliner records, No.18 Father William, No.59 Willow Tit-willow (Mikado) and No.377 Hohenfriedberger (cracked)

Lot Essay

The second disc has the Kaemer & Reinhardt trade mark. Only the third record still has its paper label on the reverse

An iron based version of the Berliner Gramophone was sold in these rooms on 8 December 1994, lot 159. Various other examples with diffrent wood and iron bases have also been sold here in the past twenty five years.

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