Keen-o-Phone



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The Keen-o-Phone company of Philadelphia, founded by Morris Keen, began manufacture in 1911 of a horn-in-lid type machine with mechanical feed. The Victrola type machine depicted below, whose model designation is not known, would have been issued sometime after the Victor needle-in-the-groove patents expired in 1912. Its simple, open design indicates that it would have been an inexpensive offering. Keen-o-Phone ceased production in 1914. Judging from where surving examples have turned up, close to the Philadelphia area, its distribution must have been predominantly local.

Keen-o-Phone
The band leader decal was used on many Keen-o-Phone models. Larger image		 Keen-o-Phone, side
Only a simple folding shelf was available for record storage. Larger image