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Pathe Model G Pathephone

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Model G

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Model G reproducer - rubber

Model G rooster decal

Model G name plate - speed control

Model G case

Model G turntable

Model G support arm2

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Model G horn inside

Model G horn outside2

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Model G motor1

Model G motor2

The Pathe Freres company started out very early on as a distributor for other companies including Edison, HMV and Bettini. in France. Later they started making thier own cylinder phonographs, the first ones largely copies of thier rivals' machines. By 1906 they started making disc phonographs such as this Model D which sold for about 160 Francs. The records were vertical cut like the cylinders of the day and the later Edison Diamond Disc reccords. They were played with a sapphire ball reproducer instead of a steel needle. The early Pathe discs known today as "Center Starts" played from the inside to the outside at about 90 rpms. The very first were copies from earlier Pathe cylinder recordings.

Page from Pathe catalogue of 1906.

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Advertisement for the Pathe Model D from a November 1906 Catalogue. The Model D resembled very much the Model G. I don't know the differences. Possibly the Model G had a slightly smaller motor as it was prices about 15 Francs cheaper. The complete catalogue and other catalogues and information about Pathe can be found at this French language site. www.phono.org.

US Junior Talking Machine

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US Junior 2

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The U-S Talking Machine Company was formed in 1910 in Cleveland, Ohio. They first only sold celluloid newly patented celluloid records to compete with Edison's more fragile wax records of the time. Soon they also started making a line of machines such as this US Junior pictured above. The Junior and several other of the US machines featured a complicated dual reproducer which essentially was two separate reproducers, one for two minute and one for four minute records. This feature along with the accompanying gear change mechanism required made this a fairly complicated machine. Unfortunately these reproducers were made from pot metal and deteriorated over the years. Few few functional examples survive today. The reproducer on this machine was expertly rebuilt by Paul Baker. By 1914 the U-S Talking machine company was bankrupted at least partially by a barrage of law suits for patent infringement brought by it's large rival the Edison company. The serial number on this machine is J1019.

Phonograph Coasters

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Here's a nice set of phonograph coasters, ceramic tiles with felt backs. They were gifts from a friend several years ago and were purchased by him from an antique shop near Munich, Germany.