Description: If you're an uncompromising collector of antique technology, make sure to check out all my listings after you look at this one. I don't think you'll find a better, broader or more balanced assortment of technical antiques anywhere -- hundreds of listings each year, almost all of them featuring eye-popping "gee whiz" gadgetry in exceptional original condition. Just click this link to quickly add and then save me to your favorite seller list and Ebay will automatically send you updates when I put similar new listings online.The Tinfoil Phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in late 1877. Six months later, at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris, it was introduced to the public by machinist E. Hardy. Hardy’s apparatus was called, fittingly enough and probably under a legal directive from Mr. Edison, the Edison Phonograph.Hardy’s Tinfoil Phonograph was a ruggedly built, beautifully designed and relatively compact apparatus that could record speech and brief passages of music onto a sheet of tinfoil and play it back moments later.This example of Hardy’s Phonograph is one of fewer than two dozen that are known to have survived. It was passed down through the family of a well known Dutch electronics manufacturer until earlier in this century, when it was sold to a collector in the United States. It is now being offered again for the first time in almost 20 years.The enamel finish is obviously worn and the wood mouthpiece is a replica made by the late Ray Phillips, but the machine is otherwise in fine, working condition and is guaranteed to be an authentic Edison Phonograph manufactured in Paris in 1878 by E. Hardy. Please review the photographs and consider them an integral part of the description.Measures approximately 10″ x 8″ x 9″. Weight is 21 lb. This phonograph his being offered for local pick-up only. If you require shipping, arrangements can almost certainly be made. Please feel free to contact me if you require shipping.I'm one ebay's best known and most highly regarded sellers of antique phonographs. I've been selling and shipping them for more than 25 years. When you purchase an antique phonograph from me, you'll receive a phonograph that arrives safely because it's been carefully packed (by me, not by some well-intentioned but nonetheless confounded, doe-eyed teenager working at the UPS store who wouldn't know a phonograph from a farm tool), and you'll receive a phonograph that includes thorough but easy-to-understand set-up and operating instructions, so you won't be left scratching your head, trying to figure out how it works. Sure, you can probably get a lower price from Joe and Janet Barn-Find, but when your "bargain" arrives broken, and without any hint of how it works or how you might be able to put it back together, you'll realize that you really do get exactly what you pay for.
Price: 40000 USD
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
End Time: 2024-10-07T01:06:00.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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