Coin-Op Phonographs
Regina “Automatic Reginaphone” Style 100
aka “Table-Top Hexaphone”
A fantastic, rare machine. Although technically designated by Regina as a "Reginaphone", Style 100, it has many elements of the famous Regina Hexaphones (Styles 101 through 104) that sometimes lead it to being referred to as a "Table-top Hexaphone".
Wind the machine up, insert a nickel in the slot, and the machine will automatically play the next cylinder on the rotating carousel. At the end of the cylinder play, the reproducer raises and returns to the starting position, and the carousel advances to the next cylinder in the rotation. Unlike the later Hexaphones, there is no way to pre-select which cylinder will be played.
This is an all-original machine, playing and functioning perfectly, with an original miniature morning glory horn.
Less than a dozen of these machines are known to exist, and only two of the 4-minute design, of which this is one.
For further (and complete) details, please refer to M. Shawn O'Rourke's fine article in the March, 2018 issue of "The Antique Phonograph," published by the Antique Phonograph Society. Mr. O'Rourke recently personally cleaned, inspected, adjusted and lubricated this very Reginaphone for us, and it works perfectly, just as it came from the factory 120 years ago!