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1903 all-oak Victor gramophone Monarch Special MS with oomph

Introduced by Victor Talking Machine in 1901, the first Monarch Special MS had an ornate oak case with rope-twist top edge, egg and dart and ginger bread motifs, corner pilasters and honeysuckle plinth molding, triple-spring bevel-gear motor, a heavy cast-iron turntable, a Victor Exhibition soundbox, and a black painted flower or morning glory horn. Relatives are the earlier model Monarch M and later models D, Victor the first through sixth and the Monarch Senior models. The horns of the upscale triple-spring machines could be upgraded to a 22" speartip oak horn, for an extra $15 increasing the price by one third. Later the Monarch MS' tonearm progressed from front-mount to rigid rear-mount and finally in 1903 to the tapered rear-mount version, like this one with serial number 16440. Only about 20'000 MS were produced, compared with 58'000 M, or 158'000 Victor the second. My MS is a transitional model with 10" platter and triple-spring all-brass motor. According to a decal on the left side canvas it was sold by the renowned Eilers Piano House in Portland, Oregon, that later became Eilers Music House with many branch stores along the Pacific West coast. Unlike the larger model D, the MS still has the japanned back bracket with ornate blue-gold pin striping. It has Victor's triple-spring all-brass bevel-gear motor with 1.2 kg heavy turntable. The motor is utterly quiet. The affinity with the 1910 Monarch Senior, well known from Robert Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole is unmistakable. The Victor Exhibition soundbox features a rare spring action lever needle tightener, instead of a thumbscrew to hold round steel needles. The other nice feature is a volume control, integrated into the gooseneck tonearm, for which I have not found any reference. We first laugh with Cal Stewart on a 10" shellac record from 1913: "Ticklish Reuben" . And then play a 12" record from 1940, the second movement of Schubert's symphony Nr.8, the "Unfinished", that produces audible distortions, but since it is still made from shellac, does not suffer record wear. A clear demonstration that the Monarch Special should settle for 10" records. The gramophone is documented in detail with 50 pictures at: https://www.radio-antiks.com/IndexRad... and is for sale.