1900 Zonophone " A " With Glass Sides & Uncommon Phonograph




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Reference Number: Avaluer:4310293
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If how a piece of antique technology looks is as important to you as how it works, make sure to check out all of my auctions this week.  I'm listing more than a half dozen different items that have one thing in common: they're as wonderful to behold as they are to operate. And don't forget, you can add me to your favorite seller list and Ebay will automatically send you updates when I put similar new auctions online.
Here's a beautiful 120-year-old Zon-O...-Phone Model A phonograph.  
Condition is excellent throughout, as you can see in the photographs.  The leather horn elbow is a replacement, but the phonograph is otherwise original, including the cut glass side panels, the closed-face 4-screw Zonophone reproducer and the early all-brass elbow-less Zonophone horn. The glass panels are pristine, with no cracks, no chips, no issues. Cabinet finish is clean and original, and the celluloid plaque on the back is complete and legible. The lower tier of the base base molding (left rear corner -- see the 4th and 8th pictures) is chipped, but the wood is in good shape overall, and the corner joints are all still tightly glued. The original felt lining is still in place inside the cabinet, on the top side of the baseboard, and there are no extra screw holes in the corner posts, so this phonograph is the same one that left the factory more than a century ago, not a "marriage" of a nice mechanism and a nice cabinet, which is often what you see with early, collectible Zonophones, especially the A.
Nickel-plating on the arms and bedplate is in good shape, with areas of wear and pitting, but nothing excessive.  There's a small sliver of corrosion on the support arm that's been re-plated, but it's not noticeable unless you're looking for it (see 7th photograph). The early closed-face reproducer is in excellent condition, with no issues. Horn is also in excellent condition, with no dings, no dents, no veining, etc. It's been professionally polished, as you can see. The mechanism is clean, and the phonograph runs well. However, this is a Berliner era machine, so please don't expect it to run like a 1920 Victor. It doesn't, it won't, and it never did.
The take-away: this is a really nice example of an uncommon phonograph, and I'm confident its new custodian will be pleased with it.
I will pack the phonograph properly and make sure it arrives safely. A glass-sided Zonophone A is not a machine you want to purchase from someone who has not had extensive experience packing and shipping antique phonographs. I've been selling and shipping antique phonographs, antique radios and antique scientific apparatus for more than 25 years. When you purchase an antique phonograph from me, you'll receive a phonograph that arrives unharmed because it's been carefully packed (by me, 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.

That's about it. Overseas bidders should contact me in advance for a shipping quote. Bidders with no prior feedback, and bidders with hidden feedback, should contact me before placing a bid.  Buyer prepays and includes shipping. Paypal okay.

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