It has recently had a complete strip-down and overhaul and I suspect that the green case has been re-coloured in the past. It is finished in green Rexine® with a leather handle and has nickel plated fittings. It has a pivoted front corner needle bin, automatic brake and is fitted with the later Nº.59 single spring motor and a brass-backed Nº.4 sound box. The winding handle was moved from the front to the side in late 1926 or early 1927 but otherwise the horn, turntable, tone arm and sound box remain the same. As a result coloured HMV Portables are sought after by collectors. This may only be 50p difference but, when you consider weekly wages of £2 - £3, it was only the wealthy that would pay extra for a coloured model. These are much rarer as the original purchase price was £7.50 compared with £7.00 for a black model. This is an example of one of the last variants of the 101 and also one of the deluxe colour models. It is finished in black Rexine® with a leather handle, has nickel plated fittings and has recently been cleaned and refurbished and is in excellent mechanical and cosmetic condition. There are also two metal needle bins mounted inside the right hand side of the lid which have sprung tops.
1960S CLIPART COLLECTION MANUAL
It has a single spring front-wind motor, 10” turntable, ‘Exhibition’ sound box and a manual brake. Sound reproduction is of the 'reflex' type where, rather than using an internal horn, it has a reflector similar to the early Decca machines where the sound leaves the bottom of the tone arm and bounces off a dished, aluminium reflector which projects it out. It retains the goose-neck tone arm and ‘Exhibition’ sound box from earlier designs although, in this case, the tone arm was cleverly re-designed to be raised into playing position on a spiral mount or dropped back down for storage. Consequently good examples like this are becoming increasingly rare.
1960S CLIPART COLLECTION PORTABLE
This was HMV’s first ‘modern’ suitcase portable (following on from the model PAAO) and was listed in their catalogue for barely a year from 1924 - 1925.
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