Historical information

The Gramophone Company Limited, based in the United Kingdom, was one of the early recording companies. It was founded in 1898. That same year Fred Gaisberg moved from the United States to London to set up the first disc recording tudio in Europe. In 1900 William Owen, an English man, gained the manufacturing rights for the Lambert Typewriter Company and the Gramophone Company and for a few years was renamed the Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd.

Physical description

Timber gramophone box with turntable, needle arm, clamp and horn. No winder.
.2) - m14/57 - gramophone clamp for horn
.3) - m14/45 - gramophone arm with needle
.4) - m222 - gramophone horn
Turntable pad very worn

Inscriptions & markings

Sticker on side of box "The Gramophone Company Ltd
City Road, Finsbury Square, London
(Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Russia)"