In a message dated 8/21/2009 11:02:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
tags on it and what they mean. One says "THE UNITED STATES PHONOGRAPH CO, NEWARK N.J." AND THE OTHER SAYS "This Machine is sold by THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY under the restriction that it shall not be used within the State of NEW JERSEY. pics of tags here- -------------- By 1896, the US Phono Co of Newark had acquired unsold tops from the NA Phono Co, as a result of the NA bankruptcy of 1894. They used the Spring Motor design (Triton) invented by Frank Capps. Edison could not sell phonographs under his own name (National) in 1896, and as a result, both the Home models, and the "Spring-Motor" first had tags with 'US Phono' on them. All of this is explained in PHP. Check the serial # on the upper chassis. It should have a brass mandrel with indented lip at the right. Edward Amet also used the unsold top-chassis for his early (brass) spring motors which preceded the Edisons. Allen _www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com) _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
