ANTIQUE BEKA MIGNON GRAMOPHONE / PHONOGRAPH

THIS ANTIQUE ITEM IS FAIRLY SMALL & BEKA MIGNON GRAMOPHONE / PHONOGRAPH WHICH IS VERY RARE FOUND IN THE WORLD.

WITH GOOD COSMETIC AND STILL WORKING VERY NICELY. THIS GRAMOPHONE CAME WITH A UNIQUE HORN OUTLET ON SIDE AND A WOODEN CASE.

DIMENSION: 13"H(OPENED) X 9.6"L X 11.2"W
WEIGHS ABOUT 4.50KG PACKED



SOME FACT ABOUT THIS ANTIQUE MIGNON GRAMAPHONE :

Carl Lindström A.G. was a global record company founded in 1893 and based in Berlin, Germany. Founded by Carl Lindström (1869-1932), a Swedish inventor living in Berlin, it originally produced phonographs or gramophones with the brand names "Parlograph" and "Parlophon" and eventually began producing records as well. It became the holding company for Odeon Records, Parlophone Records (originally "Parlophon"), Beka Records and Okeh Records. Lindstrom sold the company to Max Strauss (Odeon co-founder), but Lindstrom remained with the company as an engineer and inventor.World War I caused the company to cut back its holdings closing the United Kingdom branch of Odeon when war broke out. Okeh in the U.S. survived the war intact because its president, Otto Heinemann, was an American citizen. During the war, the Transoceanic Trading Company was set up in the Netherlands to look after its overseas assets. Lindstrom returned to the UK in 1923 with the establishment of a British Parlophone branch. Parlophone's "£" trademark is not the British pound sign but the German "L" for Lindstrom. Among Parlophone's later claims to fame; it was the label for UK releases by The Beatles.The introduction of electrical recording with microphones and mixing consoles put Lindstrom at a disadvantage and they sold the company in 1926 to the Columbia Graphophone Company which had rights to electrical recording technology. In 1931, Columbia Graphophone merged with the Gramophone Company to form EMI with the labels retaining their identities. EMI's German unit in 1931 was originally called "Lindstrom-Electrola" after the merger. Okeh became part of the American operations of Columbia Records. Parlophone is still a major powerhouse in the EMI portfolio of labels thanks to the company's signing in 1962 of The Beatles.Beka Records was a record label based in Germany, active from about 1903 to 1925. Before World War I Beka also made gramophone records for the United Kingdom market under the Beka-Grand Records label. The company became a subsidiary of the Carl Lindstrom Company which was sold to the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1926.

PRICE : USD 3500.00

QUNTITY : 1 UNIT
STATUS : AVAILABLE