Victor Gramophone Monarch Special MS

RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)

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  • Year
  • 1903 ?
  • Category
  • Talking machine - Mechanical Gramophone/Phonograph 
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 357208
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

 Technical Specifications

  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Details
  • Record Player (not changer)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Solar- and/or muscle driven, also addl. power jack possible
  • Loudspeaker
  • Horn
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Victor Gramophone Monarch Special MS - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Notes

  • Built in the USA around 1903. A balance joint supports the trumpet (in iron with an aluminium bell), connected directly to the Exhibition player.

    The early version has a front-mount horn support, the later version has a rear-mount horn support.

    Reiss lists this as manufactured from 1901-1905 (front-mount) and 1903-1905 (rear-mount) and cost $45 USD when first introduced. It is fairly common with an estimated value of $1,600 USD (2007).

  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original prospect or advert ("I Grammofoni" Italy from Nino Ciravegna and Fermo Galbiati†, Edicart editor)
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • The Compleat Talking Machine, Eric L. Reiss, 2007 Fifth Ed., page 161 (photos) and page 232.
  • Author
  • Model page created by Pier Antonio Aluffi. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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