Edison Gem Phonograph

The entry-level Edison. A 1900 advertisement priced the improved Gem at $10, carrying case, reproducer and recorder included, at a time when Edison offered eight models "from $10 up." Half the price of a Standard, it packed the same kind of cylinder mechanism into a small black case with a short horn. This 1900 Gem, with a blue cylinder on its mandrel, comes from the Salvador Velez collection.