Precious Odeon Carlet I Gramophone Case. Years 20.

Precious Odeon Carlet I. 1920's. Case made in one piece. Box formed by a black suitcase, which opens and houses inside the fantastic gramophone. The box has two silver clasps on the front and a handle on the side in leather that allows its transport in a more comfortable way. The crank is located on the front of the device and stands out for being in perfect condition. On one side of the interior there is a sticker with the brand name and on the back cover the model "Carlet I" written with a beautiful golden lettering. Peter Pan reproducer in perfect condition. The piece is in magnificent conditions of conservation and operation. The nickel plating is perfect and the exterior is in excellent condition, even the handle. The motor is in fantastic condition, impeccable and silent, in spite of almost a century elapsed. The gramophone will be a tough competitor of the phonograph when the German Emile Berliner invented it in 1887. It was a new reproducer device not based on the Edisonian cylinder, but on that round surface despised by the father of the phonograph, developing the recording laterally, through the groove instead of up and down. Already from the beginning of the century, gramophones appeared in which the external horns were already suppressed and models with excellent internal horns were incorporated. The fact of including the horn inside the machine itself gave the device a more compact and solid aspect. Subsequently, the size of the machines was reduced and this type of models called suitcase models were introduced, which allowed easy transportation of the apparatus. Odeon was initially a record label published by the International Talking Machine Co. of Berlin. The company was created in 1903 by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz, with the commercial support of Frederick M. Prescott. In 1911 Carl Lindström, owner of Parlophone and more interested up to that date in machines than in recordings, acquired several German domestic labels, among them Odeon, and in 1931 all his labels joined the ranks of the English company Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI). In the 1920s the Odeon brand manufactured numerous gramophones, some of them in suitcase, as this example and other models such as the Mirakle, the Paracelsus or the Smart. Magnificent piece in perfect condition for the delight of a demanding collector. Measures: 33 x 27 x 20 cm.