Music Master Radio Reproducer

 I thought it was a fake antique! It is a real speaker that would attach to a radio. It was made sometime between 1924 and 1926 by the Music Master Corporation, 10th and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, previously called Geraco and General Radio Corporation. The bell is made of mahogany strips and it has a heavy base of iron and the driver seems to be aluminum and steel. Retailed originally at 35 US.

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Links:

https://newsm.org/wireless/geraco-music-master-radio-reproducer/

One for sale for 1595!

Interesting article about getting it to work with a modern amp by increasing the impedance to 600 Ohms

Anscoflex twin lens camera

Anscoflex was a twin lens camera developed in 1954 by Ansco Anscoflex was designed by Raymond Loewy, who also designed the Shell petroleum logo. The lens cover slides up with the cover of the view screen to form a hood to shade the screen in bright light. It used the now obsolete 620 format film but with some work 120 film can be used with it. See Good article here: 

Bird of Paradise

 

Thrift store find - Promo brochure for 1951 version of Bird of Paradise, starring Louis Jordan as a Frenchman who goes to Polynesia, marries a native, played by the not-very-Polynesian Debra Paget, who is sacrificed to a volcano. Seriously. I think it's a fumetti with the plot given along with still photos.