Vintage Red Mignonphone Gramophone * Pocket Phonograph Disguised As A Brush Set for Sale

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Vintage Red Mignonphone Gramophone * Pocket Phonograph Disguised As A Brush Set For Sale

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Vintage Red Mignonphone Gramophone * Pocket Phonograph Disguised As A Brush Set:
$1000.00

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Here\'s a wonderful, 90+ year-oldredMignonphone disc phonograph in its original red leather case, with its original red cardboard folding horn, its original instruction sheet, and its original Mignonphone needle tin. It looks great, it works great, and it will be ready to display or play as soon as it arrives.

The phonograph is in excellent condition throughout. Exterior covering, cardboard horn and carrying strap are alloriginal, and this is worth noting, because almost all surviving red Mignonphones have reproduction cardboard horns (or no horns at all). Red strap that secures the horn to the interior of the lid is original and undamaged. Original gold medallion and original paper data tag. Scattered marks on the exterior and interior surfaces consistent with age, authenticity and normal handling. Reproducer is original, as is the crank, as are all the other parts, including the turntable and the hold-down clamp. The brake lever and speed control are both working properly, and the turntable revolves quietly. The motor is strong, and the phonograph has no trouble making it through a record. The phonograph may be small, but it is not a toy.
When closed, the leather-clad housing -- as you can see, it\'s styled like a miniature vanity case -- measures just 5\" wide by 9\" deep by 3\" high.

It\'s hard to find any working red Mignonphone, much less one with its original red cardboard horn, its original rubber horn coupler, its original instruction sheet, and its original needle tin.
Overall, an exceptionally nice pocket gramophone, worthy of the most exacting collector.
I\'m one of \'s best known, most highly regarded sellers of antique phonographs. I\'ve been sellingand shippingthem for more than 25 years. When you purchase an antique phonograph from me, you\'ll receive a phonograph that arrives safely because it\'s been carefully packed (byme, not by some well-intentioned but nonetheless confounded, doe-eyed teenager working at the UPS store who wouldn\'t know a phonograph from a farm tool), and you\'ll receive a phonograph that includes thorough but easy-to-understand set-up and operating instructions, so you won\'t be left scratching your head, trying to figure out how it works. Sure, you can probably get a lower price from Joe and Janet Barn-Find, but when your \"bargain\" arrives broken, and without any hint of how it works or how you might be able to put it back together, you\'ll realize that you really do get exactly what you pay for.