The cost back then was about $400, when you could buy a FORD automobile for that price! Of course, less expensive players were available from Victor and other makers. This spring-driven model also uses steel needles and has a swivel horn that can be turned to direct the sound.Įnjoy the surprisingly impressive sound out of our top-of-the-line and very expensive 1926 CREDENZA floor model 78s record player with its folded wood horn inside and original electric motor upgrade. 1910 STERLING Disc Graphophone 78s player with outside metal horn made in the United States by the Columbia Graphophone Company. Their products were imported through Montreal by their Canadian company for the Canadian market. One major maker of record players was the Victor Talking Machine Company in New Jersey. At lower cost, smaller Little Wonder hard plastic 78s records were produced in the millions around 1910 - they were just ten cents each, but there was music on one side only and the performers were anonymous.

The larger, 12 inch records had up to four minutes per side, and there were typically albums with sets of three or four or more of these if you enjoyed symphonies or opera. The 10 inch diameter 78s had up to three minutes of music and songs on each side in their side-to-side grooves - the cost was typically 50 cents to a dollar each.

Yes, that means there was a decade overlap at the end with vinyl LPs and those large-hole-in the-middle 45s that were the source of 'pop' music in the 1950s. In the early years, replaceable sacrificial steel needles tracked the grooves during playback. Ask to see the volume control for the inside metal horn!ĭo you remember the old 78 RPM flat shellac plastic records? Hundreds of millions of them were pressed over many decades from the late 1890s up to 1960. There is also a spring-driven 1920s floor model that plays Thomas Edison's very thick, flat records dating from the late 1910s to the late 1920s. There were no electronics, just a metal horn inside to project the sound. The Amberol records contained up to four minutes of music in their up-and-down grooves the grooves were followed with a small smooth sapphire stylus linked to a diaphragm. We have Edison music cylinder record players (operating on windup springs, with celluloid plastic BLUE AMBEROL records), including an outside 'flowers' horn model from about 1905 and a 1920 AMBEROLA 75 floor model with its horn inside. When you visit our unique museum, with its focus on clocks made and sold in Canada from the 1820s to the present time, you can also HEAR old music record players. The BRESLIN INDUSTRIES label for lamps is usually found on the outside of the cylindrical part where the light bulb is screwed in. At least two different styles were available. Note the closed-top, copper-plated metal lamp shades that were held on the light bulb by spring clip. A horse, an elephant family, curling equipment! A combination electric lamp with a windup clock in the metal horseshoe. The elecrtric LAMP designs are certainly unusual. I assume that the cowboy on his horse beside the clock in the horseshoe is a Breslin model, because the unmarked woodgrain paper dial has the same design, numbers and font as the named woodgrain dial.

There is evidence that electric motor clocks were also available. 8 DAY on the dials indicates that the spring-driven, balance-wheel clock movements (apparently supplied by Ingraham Canadian in Toronto, based on the key shape) would be wound up once a week via the built-in key on the back. One has a vertical brown wood grain, and a second has a circular foil centre. There were at least two different designs for the paper dial on the Breslin windup clocks. I suspect that the horse and cowboy theme is related to the many 'cowboys and Indians' programs on black & white television in the 1950s. There is a small, easy to miss, difference in the design between the Breslin and Snider molded metal horseshoes. The horse / horseshoe clocks on a wooden or metal base are similar to the models made at the same time in Toronto by Harry Snider. The most common colour found is copper plating. Shown here are pictures of the clocks (and unusual electric lamps!) currently in this museum's collection of Breslin items as of mid 2023. It is assumed that their clocks were included in the novelties catagory. In the 1950s, brothers Edward and Samual Breslin operated Breslin Industries in Toronto, with a product line that included lamps, lampshades, and 'novelties'. BRESLIN INDUSTRIES (Toronto 1950s clocks lamps)

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