Gramophone, portable, 'The Grippa Portable Perophone', wooden box, hinged lid, metal turntable inside, arm fitting into side compartment, handle for winding, Perophone Ltd British Manufacture, London, England, c. 1930-1939 (OF).

Perophone was the brand-name of Vernon Lockwood Manufacturing Co., City Rd, London, first used about 1910. They produced conventional, but often above quality British Gramophones. Known as Micro-Perophone Gramophones by 1927, probably called "Micro" after the Bettini Micro-Phonograph which was so called to indicate the minute acoustic details it was capable of producing.
Sourced https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=8775, accessed 27/08/2021

Vernon Lockwood Manufacturing Co

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

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K547 Gramophone, portable, 'The Grippa Portable Perophone', wood / metal / leather / possibly felt, Vernon Lockwood Manufacturing Co, London, England, c. 1930-1939

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

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'The Grippa Portable Perophone' gramophone

Object No. K547

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