A Fine Early 20thC Hand Painted Petalled Edison Phonograph Sound Horn by The Tea Tray Company sub-Antiques are known as cheval screens

are known as cheval screens

but it could just as easily be worn around the neck on a chain

Painted labels such as these were eventually phased out and replaced with labels under glass (LUG) later in the century so as to stop the abrasion of the labels themselves

John Basely from Ohio invented the step ladder in 1862

There is further inlaid decoration to the inner lid

A Fine Early 20thC Hand Painted Petalled Edison Phonograph Sound Horn by The Tea Tray Company sub-Antiques are known as cheval screensOrigin: American Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Fagin`s Phonograph Emporium Collection Date: c. 1905 15 Diameter: 22 inches Length: 30 inches With hand painted floral `Pansie` interior with rose ground and labelled `TCT` for the Tea Tray Co. within an oval, the eleven panel tin phonograph horn in Edison Bell style hailing from Fagin`s Phonograph Emporium Collection, but originally made in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The century old un