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Guesthouse coin-operated gramophone "Mammut" with flower horn

Mammut-Werke, Carl Below1906-1908

Museum for Communication Nuremberg, Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication

Museum for Communication Nuremberg, Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
Nürnberg, Germany

This coin-operated gramophone with green floral horn worked automatically: by inserting a 10 pfennig piece, a mechanism sets the tonearm as well as the turntable and shellac record in motion, and the music starts. They were manufactured by Mammut-Werke from Leipzig, whose machines were in great demand in restaurants in Germany, Austria, and Bohemia at the beginning of the 20th century. A plaque states that the merchant Albert Kettner in Rosenheim, Bavaria sold the gramophone.

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  • Title: Guesthouse coin-operated gramophone "Mammut" with flower horn
  • Creator: Mammut-Werke, Carl Below
  • Date Created: 1906-1908
  • Location Created: Leipzig, Deutschland
  • Rights: © Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation
  • Material: Metalle, Holz
Museum for Communication Nuremberg, Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication

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