Impressive Howthorne and Sheble Star Gramophone with Special Arm. 1907

Impressive Howthorne and Sheble Star Gramophone with special arm from 1907. Model 3,5, series.7720. Aesthetically magnificent and working American gramophone. Wooden case with straight and compact forms, and beautiful wooden flower-shaped horn with golden brass joints. All parts are original. This model has the particularity of having a detachable arm patented by the Victor Company and copied by this brand, which is a particular hollow arm inside, where the sound reaches the end of the arm, to the head, and returns. This is a primitive mechanism to obtain treble and bass sounds, one of the first mechanical equalizers in history! The brand is defined on the case with a metal front plate with the characteristic Star of David, and by a red stamp on the back of the horn. The machinery has been overhauled and revised so you can listen to music from day one. The gramophone was invented by the German Emile Berliner in 1887, becoming a tough competitor of the phonograph that Edison had invented years before. It was a new reproducer device that used a disc instead of a cylinder. In those years there will be a real struggle for innovation and for getting reproducer devices entering into play many brands with greater or lesser luck. The brand Howthorne and Sheble and the Victor Company were involved in a fight for patents in the early twentieth century. Howthorne and Sheble made high quality, first class devices with very good materials, including in their models a detachable arm, interchangeable diaphragms to modify the tone and needle receptacles. It also had a tone modifier hidden in the arm, which necessarily had to be conical, something at odds with the Victor Company's patent. Although the models of this brand were of first quality and were made with the best materials, its high price and the fight for patents made it unable to compete with the rest of the brands and had to close in 1909. High quality model that adds the exclusivity provided by the fact that there are not many on the market. Measures: 54 cm diameter x 59 cm long (horn); 36 X 36 X 17 cm (case).