Name/Title
Graphophone Type N ThornwardEntry/Object ID
233Description
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.