Posted 13 years ago
vetraio50
(756 items)
Any information on my children's gramophone would be appreciated.
I have found out that it is a NIFTY NIRONA TOY LITHOGRAPH METAL GRAMOPHONE.
I have seen an advertisement from the 30's for one of these and there were no children in the image, just two stylish art deco adults.
I have left this one in the poor condition that I found it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
It works well. The horn is the innovation in these gramophones which I think were made in Germany. It makes a lot of noise! OOps Music, not noise. Certainly a lot more noise than the HMV that my parents gave me when I was seven. It had been theirs in the 40's I think.
I especially like the silhouettes around the edge of the machine.
When I bought it there were two books of records:
"Little Tots Records" Songs Games Stories for Kiddies No 1 and No 2.
There are three records in each set as well as some illustrations and the words to the songs. The illustrations are by Maud Trube.
As well as that I got another 14 records.
They are 14 centimetres /5.5 ins.
I was just looking into these today. I found one and talked to a guy about purchasing one. This is a beaut! Do you still have the horn? I would look into getting it restored if I were you.
Hi the horn is actually illustrated in the photo. I will put another photo in to give more detail. Thanks for your comment and advice.
Very nice! I love the detail of the children around the outside. I am looking into an antique columbia. I could kick myself in the butt for passing on the two I saw at the auction last week! They were children's style decorated ones but were the kind in the box. They still had the hand winders though.
Hi, Nice machine. These were an inexpensive disc machine made in Germany and were probably intended as much for adults as well as children the 1920's I don't think I would do too much restoration, maybe just a bit of a clean and polish. Regards
Thanks for the help and advice from you both!
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Great item!
I found several of those 5.5", 78 rpm records in a box of 78's I bought yesterday, however, they are not children's records, they are Little Wonder records. Thank you, I was wondering what the player looked like.
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What a great piece! Thanks for posting the photo that led me here. I love the whole package, photos, player & horn, records,........how special that you have them together.
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