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By valerie211, 24 July, 2022
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Sonara phonograph Serial number 325474

Category
Vintage Electronics
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Lovejoy

2 years 11 months ago

Sonora Phonograph

From my dusty files,

"Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc.; New York, N.Y.: Predecessor: Sonora Chime Company started making two-movement chime clocks around 1900. Sonora Chime Company at 5 Cedar St., New York City, patented its system of chiming bells to be put into its clocks beginning 1908. Seth Thomas aquired the patent rights in 1908. The Sonora Chime Company was reincorporated in February of 1913 as the Sonora Phonograph Company by its founder, George Brightson. It was located at 78 Reade St., New York City.

Sonora was a large phonograph manufacturer. Around 1924 the model line was extended to radios, which were not produced in its own plants, but bought from Ware, Wireless Specialty, Splitdorf, or American Bosch. The successor of "Sonora Phonograph" is Sonora Radio & Telev., Corp.; 325 North Hoyne Avenue, Chicago. They ceased production in 1930.

Currently at auction comparable phonographs sell for under $200.00.

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