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Description: SERIAL NO. 832946 PAT. DATE. JULY 12, 1918 "MADE IN CANADA THE INSTRUMENT OF QUALITY SONORA CLEAR AS A BELL WITH TWO MEDALLIONS. HIGHEST AWARD FOR TONE AT PANOMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION 1915" ON LID. "SONORA CLEAR AS A BELL MFD BY SONORA INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. NO. 832946 SEE PATENT NOTICE AFFIXED ON INVESTMENT". ON NAME PLATE ON INSIDE. PATENT DATE ON NEEDLE WITH PATENT PENDING. C/W 5 NEEDLES. REMOVABLE FRONT PIECE OF SPEAKER.TURNTABLE COVERED WITH BROWN VELVET. STILL FUNCTIONAL. **EXTRA NEEDLES MISSING (08/98). MAHOGANY SCRATCHED; SOME STAINS; CHIP IN BACK. RIGHT HANDLEOF CABINET MISSING.

History: *UPDATE* IN 2010 NICOLE HEMBROFF, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT, CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PALLET RACKING. DONOR IS DECEASED, SHE WAS UNABLE TO FIND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NEXT OF KIN. UPDATE: ON 12 MARCH 2019, MUSEUM STAFF WERE CONTACTED BY EMAIL BY JOAN (BOUCK) PATENAUDE – THE GREAT NIECE OF OBJECT DONOR ELMER R. MCINTOSH. ACCORDING TO PATENAUDE, HER GREAT UNCLE WAS A FORMER CPR CONDUCTOR, RUNNING TRAINS OUT OF LETHBRIDGE. IN HER EMAIL, SHE WROTE, “ELMER WAS A GREAT COLLECTOR OF ALL THINGS…WHEN HE PASSED AWAY MY DAD DONATED [ELMER’S COLLECTED] ITEMS TO BOTH THE GALT IN LETHBRIDGE AND THE GLENBOW IN CALGARY. I WAS ABOUT 12-13 YEARS OF AGE WHEN…I REMEMBER MY DAD DISPOSING OF HIS COLLECTION OF ITEMS.” PATENAUDE ALSO STATED THAT HER FAMILY IS RELATED TO THE HISTORIC JOHN MCINTOSH (1777-1845) WHO GREW AND PROMOTED THE FAMOUS MCINTOSH RED APPLE. ELMER IS JOHN MCINTOSH’S GREAT-GRANDSON BY WAY OF JOHN’S SON ALLEN (1815-1899.