"Canadian"
I'm not sure it is the
same company but Roll Back The Years,
Edward
Moogk,
National
Library
of
Canada, 1975, on page 61 mentions:
"One machine that never quite got off the ground was the Best-Phone sold by two former Edison employees, J.J. Brophy and E.G. Bryson, from premises at 406-408 Yonge Street in Toronto. The Best-Phone was a concealed-horn machine with a duplex sound box and a diamond point and adjustable to play either lateral or horizontal-cut records. Even at $25, it apparently had little attraction for buyers. The Canadian Phonograph Company, situated at 103 Yonge Street, took over the Best-Phone but discontinued use of the corporate name."
There are no 'Best-Phone' machines on this page...yet.
Machine pictures taken at an outdoor antique sale in southern Ontario, 2005 (photos by KW).
"One machine that never quite got off the ground was the Best-Phone sold by two former Edison employees, J.J. Brophy and E.G. Bryson, from premises at 406-408 Yonge Street in Toronto. The Best-Phone was a concealed-horn machine with a duplex sound box and a diamond point and adjustable to play either lateral or horizontal-cut records. Even at $25, it apparently had little attraction for buyers. The Canadian Phonograph Company, situated at 103 Yonge Street, took over the Best-Phone but discontinued use of the corporate name."
There are no 'Best-Phone' machines on this page...yet.
Machine pictures taken at an outdoor antique sale in southern Ontario, 2005 (photos by KW).
Machine for sale in Toronto, Feb. 2008 (photos by KW):
Arthur Zimmerman sent:
Canadian Phonograph, produced by the National Cabinet Company, Ltd., 485 King Street West, Toronto (phonograph manufacturers for 15 years), CMTJ [Canadian Music Trades Journal], August 1919, p. 97
'Sonograph' made for Canadian Phonograph from the Domenic DiBernardo Collection photographed by Cheryl Wright:
Sound box is labelled for 'Mason & Risch Toronto'--originally a piano company.
