PAILLARD Switzerland MIKIPHONE System Vadasz 1920's Pocket PHONOGRAPH w/Case

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PAILLARD Switzerland MIKIPHONE System Vadasz 1920's Pocket PHONOGRAPH w/Case
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Pocket phonograph made by Paillard in Switzerland, marked "Mikiphone", "System Vadasz." Designed by Hungarian designer Miklós Vadász, made in the late 1920's. Nickle plate over brass and steel. Case exhibits minor denting and brassing, internal components all present. It has a service record for a new mainspring and arbor from 2014. Comes with a box and 3 bags of extra needles.
As found on Flashbak:
The Mikiphone pocket phonograph was designed by Hungarian brothers Miklós and Étienne Vadász, and mass produced under licence by Masison Paillard of Saint Croix, Switzerland.
Formed by a consortium of local watch makers in 1814, Paillard began making music boxes from about 1860. Just before the turn of the century, the company added cylinder phonographs to its catalogue, switching to disc gramophones in 1905. In 1913, Paillard developed an electric AC gramophone motor, and from 1927 the company built electric amplifiers for gramophones, and later radio equipment. Somewhere between those two developments, Paillard made around 180,000 of the Vadász brothers’ Mikiphones.
The
Science Museum
in London says the first machine was made in 1923, and in November 1924 patented and licensed by Paillard, which, as Earthly Mission notes, churned the thing out between 1925 and 1927.
It’s a lovely gadget, predating the Sony Walkman and iPod. The parts are stored in a nickel-plated box (also available in gold or silver), which, when closed, had a diameter of just 11.5 cm and a thickness of 4.7 cm. You pulled and pushed the thing together, connecting the recorder head and the two-part Bakelite resonator to the foldout tone arm, placed the record on the turntable’s pin, flexed your fingers, wound the handle 50 times, stuck on your 78rpm 10-inch platter and listened.
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