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Sonora Phonograph Company, Inc., ca.1910-1920 Proof Stock Certificate (Evolved into Magnavox)

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Sonora Phonograph Company, Inc., ca.1910-1920 Proof Stock Certificate (Evolved into Magnavox)
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New York. Odd Shares Common Capital Stock Proof Certificate, No border or underprint, Bald Eagle and bell top center with title and text, Fine condition. Republic BNC. Very possibly only 1 or 2 proofs known for this company. Sonora was a large phonograph manufacturer. Around 1924 the model line was extended to radios, which were not produced in its own plants, but bought from Ware, Wireless Specialty, Splitdorf, or American Bosch. The successor of "Sonora Phonograph" is Sonora Radio & Telev., Corp. At the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco the Sonora phonograph was awarded a gold medal for its quality. Radios became popular in the1920's, and the company turned to the manufacture of radio cabinets. In 1929 the New York investors obtained complete control, and then went bankrupt in 1930. Sonora Phonograph slogans were: "The Instrument of Quality" and "Clear as a Bell". In summer 1927 the company's headquarters moved to Saginaw. Sonora had a branch in Oakland, California, that later became Magnavox.