This gramophone, of unknown origin and manufacture, carries a metal plaque that likely references the E. Duigou department store, which specialized in musical instruments and accessories at the now-lost address "22, rue des Halles, Nantes." This was an excellent choice of location—right at the confluence of the Erdre and Loire rivers, placing it in the very heart of France's third-largest industrial city at the time.
Otherwise, the gramophone is entirely standard, without any distinctive features beyond the typical designs of its era. It operated with a classic manually wound spring-driven mechanism and played records at a speed of 78 revolutions per minute.