Graphophone Type N Thornward

Object/Artifact

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Edisonium

Name/Title

Graphophone Type N Thornward

Entry/Object ID

233

Description

Like its competitor Sears, Montgomery Ward had an arrangement to sell Columbia Graphophones through its mail order catalogue. Thornward was Ward's house brand -- a man named Thorn had been a business partner of Montgomery Ward. This Thornward is a regular Graphophone Type N in all but with a different -- the bullet shaped mandrel reveals it to be a Columbia N, which was introduced ca. 1895.