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<p>[QUOTE="Nvntivs, post: 380916, member: 7975"]Hi Joanne and thank you for the pictures. Unfortunately you are right. There is not much to see... at least not for me. However, I also think it is a gramophone cabinet from 1920s-1940s which was probably completely stripped of its original interior. Here is a good example currently on eBay <b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y92vo8re" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tinyurl.com/y92vo8re" rel="nofollow">https://tinyurl.com/y92vo8re</a></b></p><p>But also if you use the google search for "gramophone cabinet" you will see there is vast numbers of varieties.</p><p>It is rather difficult to narrow the age span more exactly, since when these early music boxes became popular, they were made actually in all possible styles, resembling everything people had in their homes for the previous 30 years. Thus you find some of them looking like Art Nouveu, others like Eclecticism, others like Neo Gotic and so on. If you have a small hole on one side, then it is probably an earlier one. One of those which you had to wind-up with a handle. If not, then it was rather already electric. Regarding the question if it is big enough for a gramophone or not. There were some of them with nothing more than a moving turntable and a hand which was easy to move and hide.</p><p>However, this is just my opinion <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I am not an expert for this kind of furniture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nvntivs, post: 380916, member: 7975"]Hi Joanne and thank you for the pictures. Unfortunately you are right. There is not much to see... at least not for me. However, I also think it is a gramophone cabinet from 1920s-1940s which was probably completely stripped of its original interior. Here is a good example currently on eBay [B][URL]https://tinyurl.com/y92vo8re[/URL][/B] But also if you use the google search for "gramophone cabinet" you will see there is vast numbers of varieties. It is rather difficult to narrow the age span more exactly, since when these early music boxes became popular, they were made actually in all possible styles, resembling everything people had in their homes for the previous 30 years. Thus you find some of them looking like Art Nouveu, others like Eclecticism, others like Neo Gotic and so on. If you have a small hole on one side, then it is probably an earlier one. One of those which you had to wind-up with a handle. If not, then it was rather already electric. Regarding the question if it is big enough for a gramophone or not. There were some of them with nothing more than a moving turntable and a hand which was easy to move and hide. However, this is just my opinion :) I am not an expert for this kind of furniture.[/QUOTE]
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