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Please help identify this old crank phonograph
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:07 pm
by Bruce
Can anyone identify this old crank phonograph? I replaced veneer and refinished the cabinet. There was no label or decal indicating the manufacturer.
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Thanks,
Bruce
Re: Please help identify this old crank phonograph
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:19 am
by truetone36
The company that made the reproducer for your machine is still in business. Maybe they will have information on what brand of machine this is. If it helps, I'd guess your machine was made between 1926-29.
Re: Please help identify this old crank phonograph
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:28 pm
by watanabehi
I used to have this model. It is called Brunwick Panatrope Ceville. This seems have no original soundbox and tonearm.
I have a Cortez which is the largest of this series.
Hideki Watanabe
Re: Please help identify this old crank phonograph
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:49 am
by Warren
I just bought one that I was trying to identify, and I think you just helped me out. Mine is a console model with the split lid. It has exactly the same style feet, same reproducer by E.Toman&Co. and the same turntable controls.
Re: Please help identify this old crank phonograph
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:29 am
by vintage music co
Toman made reproducers used in both Silvertone Truphonic & Mont. Ward Cecelian Machines, in answer to the Victor, Columbia & Brunswick "Ortho" machines. My guess on this picture is a Cecilian: while the cabinet looks like the Brunswick Seville, the motor board & arm are not, and Sears used mostly HH Saal motors- the controls pictured don't look like Saal. I would date it at 1928-30.OR it could be neither and be a genaric "house brand" made at the request of some furniture (etc.) store...
There, my 2 cents worth, if it's worth that....