Coin Slot
Magazine
- #002 - 1974 - October [International
Arcade
Museum] ISSUE 2
THE
COIN
SLOT
OCTOBER
1974
EDISON COIN-SLOT PHONOGRAPHS
Regardless of the field of collecting, all antique collect
ors do have atleast one trait in common: we want to know
when, where, and by whom our treasured objects were made.
The original cost is another factor that usually intrigues us.
Since most of the items we seek were constructed after 1850,
this task is not an impossible one, and is often aided by look
ing through old catalogues. The reprints of the old Sears and
Mo ntgomery-Ward books are often very useful for this pur
pose.
Allen Koenigsberg, editor and publisher of The Antique
Phonograph Monthly, has done all of us a service by re
printing a catalogue that none of us are likely to come across
in the original: the 1906 edition of Edison Coin-slot Phono
graphs. This twenty page soft covered booklet has nine il
lustrations of period coin-op phonos and related items.
Five different model are shown and discribed, including
those powered by A. C., Do C., and battery current. Spring
driven units are also pictured. Each item is shown and dis
cribed to the minutest detail, including price, dimensions,
weight and optional equipment.
Anyone who has never seen one of these "gems" in the flesh
and questions the sturdiness of their manufacture can't help
but being impressed by discriptions such as this one of the
Edison Eclipse Phonograph (pictured on this months cover):
11.. .quartered oak cabinet, antique finish, highly polished,
square top, fitted with bevel glass, and beveled French
plate glass mirror in the back of the interior..."
If antique phonos are your bag we strongly suggest that
you send Allen $3e95 for this informative book. His address
is: 3400 Snyder Ave., Brooklyn, N,Y. 11203. Incidentally,
Allen also has reprints of some twenty other old talking ma
chine publications. If you are interested in a free copy of The
Antique Phonograph Monthly, just sent Allen a SASE with
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Thankyou.
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