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Description: | Child's wind up toy gramophone/phonograph, "BINGOPHONE", made by Bing Werke in Bavaria, 1930s. (a) Cream circular base unit with red rim with octagonal side panels featuring printed nursery rhyme pictures and green 'flock' covered turntable. (b) Detachable 'silvered' (chrome(?) plated) amplifier/horn. The handle for winding the mechanism is missing. The trademark of a sideways 'B' above a 'W' dates the manufacture to between 1924 and 1932. 'D.R.G.M.' is stamped in to the side of the horn. A brake lever corresponds to a notch in the rim of the turntable.
Accession number: NCMB 1977-717 | Subjects: | models toys sound reproduction | Temporal: | 1924-1932. | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Southern Germany | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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