Although the pictures are pretty terrible, this eBay console is very
like the one I mentioned earlier that I have pictures of. The record
changer is a Farnsworth P-56 which is a totally unique design and cannot be
mistaken for anything else. And the radio dial shows that it is AM and FM
with the postwar FM channel numbers. It's all circa 1947.
Greg Bogantz
----- Original Message -----
From: "DanKj" <ediso...@verizon.net>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Brunswick panatropes (continued)
I think there's one on eebay, right now:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brunswick-radio-with-panatrope-model-t4000-/151052855927
----- Original Message -----
From: <rpm...@aol.com>
To: <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Brunswick panatropes (continued)
Wikipedia supports a substantial article about Brunswick (named for its
creator, an emigrant from Switzerland) and its subsequent association
with Mr.
Balke and Mr. Collender, all during the 19th century.
It mentions their discs and phonographs. It eventually manufactured
other
non-billiard objects too, and the name still does exist and a company
carrying the name Brunswick of course does exist today. There is no
mention of
its remaining in the record business or any objects associated with
phonographs after its sale to Warner Brothers ca. 1930 --- although
record
collectors know that discs with Brunswick labels were manufactured well
into the
1930s.
In a message dated 6/4/2013 9:51:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
gbogan...@charter.net writes:
I have some pictures of a Brunswick console that is from about 1947,
definitely after WWII. It is labeled as "Brunswick with Panatrope". It
looks like it was actually made by Capehart-Farnsworth as it uses the
Farnsworth P-56 record changer and the chassis looks like a Farnsworth
AM-FM
model from 1947. It even uses the FM channel numbers from 200 to 300 on
the
dial rather than the FM frequencies in MHz. Capehart-Farnsworth were
among
the few makers to use the FM channel numbers in the postwar period. So
Brunswick evidently continued the use of the Panatrope moniker into the
postwar period and probably continued to use it until they went out of
the
radio/phono business shortly thereafter.
Greg Bogantz
----- Original Message -----
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To: <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 2:44 AM
Subject: [Phono-L] Brunswick panatropes
I visited a friend yesterday and he showed me a Brunswick Panatrope
(with
phonograph changer and radio) which he believed dated to the late
1930s.
My parents owned a model, c. 1930, with phonograph and "radiola", and
I
had no idea that the Brunswick name was used on combination credenzas
through
that decade.
Can someone tell me when the Brunswick name was dropped from such
machines?
Paul Charosh
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