Close this window to return to the Previous page

#CAT-15 - Paramount Phonographs Operating Instructions Booklet - $7.00 Soft bound, and measuring approx. 5” x 6.75”, the booklet has 16 pages. The inside front page gives the company’s name as the “Paramount Talking Machine Co., Port Washington, Wis., U.S.A.”. The following subjects are listed on the Contents page: Set Up; How to Play; Needles; Records and their care; Motor, Care and operation; Oiling; Universal tone-arm; Upkeep and finish; Speed regulator; Tone modifier; and Repairs. There are several line-drawing illustrations, including one showing the Universal Tone-Arm. This shows how the business end of the arm could be turned two different ways, to enable one to play Pathé and Edison records in addition to the Paramount, Victor and Columbia type of record! The following brief history of Paramount was found on the Sheboygan Blues Society website. The Wisconsin Chair Company was established in Port Washington, Wisconsin in 1888 by Fred Dennett, a native of Sheboygan, the 'city of cheese, chairs, churches, and children,' some forty miles further north on the shorelines of Lake Michigan. Fred was a diversifier, founding many companies including the Sheboygan Kitting Company. As business expanded he bought his own timberland acreage and cut the logs in his own sawmills. After making cabinets for the Edison Company's phonographs, Dennett started the Northern Couch Company in January 1915. A year later, it became the United Phonograph Corporation and announced its intention to make phonographs and phonograph records, under two brand names, Puritan and Paramount! The condition of these journals is Good+, with bumping and rubbing at the corners and edges. There are a couple of edge tears, the largest being 1/8”, and 1/4” chip missing from the edge of the back cover. A few scribbled circles (obviously done by a child), have been erased by me, using a white German eraser famous for not leaving smudges behind. Little evidence of the circles or my removal of them... as you may judge by the clean appearance of the interior illustration page scanned for this listing. The paper is lightly toned, and there are two light vertical bends. Otherwise the booklet is clean, tight and complete!