The Gaulois

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Issued around 1900, it is the French copy of the cast iron Edison Gem with some minor changes.  The cristal horn was advertised in Pathe catalogs, this is why this kind of horn is much more common in France than the Hawthorne & Sheble one in the US (see Edison Home A).

 

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From the 1900 Pathe catalog

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