Portable Columbia Grafonola, manufactured in England, in wooden leather bound case. Patent No. 212137. Size: 15" x 11" x 5 1/2".(SB).

Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. (OR Colombia Phonograph Co Ltd) was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. Makers of Columbia Records and Columbia Gramophones, of Clerkenwell Road, London EC of Hayes, Middlesex. The Biritish comapny was active between 1922-1931. 
In 1887 the Columbia Phonograph Company founded by stenographer Edward Easton and a group of investors. By 1900 London became the European headquarters of the Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Co, of West Virginia, USA Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia Graphophone Co Ltd was established in 1922 as independent British-owned company as an offshoot of the American Columbia Phonograph Company. The Gramophone Company Limited (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) merged with the Columbia Graphophone Co Ltd in 1931 to form Electric and Musical Industries Limited (EMI), its name "The Gramophone Company Limited" continued in the UK into the 1970s.

Columbia Graphophone Co Ltd

England, United Kingdom, Europe

H6650 Gramophone, in case, with needles, Grafanola, wood / leather / metal / textile / plastic, Columbia Graphophone, England, c. 1927

Turntable player for vinyl long play disc records (LPs) or 45s.

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Portable Columbia Grafonola made in England

Object No. H6650

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