Guess I'll find out when it arrives ! Step one will be to see if I can remove the crank...

Now, was the needle cup used to store new, or used needles? I've ordered 300 "soft tone" and 100 "medium tone" needles for it (new manufacture), by the way. This is my first wind-up phonograph.

I just bought this suitcase portable on EBay: [url]cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=161031416871[/url] Grinnell Brothers was a sales distributor, not a manufacturer. Can anybody tell me who the manufacturer most likely was, and when it was made? Someone on another forum suggested that...