Thanks Wes for providing info about the original patents for the Electrohome Circa 75 prototype and the Circa 75 model 701. To the right is the original artwork penned by someone in the art department of Electrohome back in the late 1960's - Perhaps Gordon Duern himself? I always find it kind of funny the kind of things that get patented - this is essentially a patent on a round plywood cylinder covered with a teak veneer and stuck on a pedestal with a wooden spindle. A *very* cool plywood cylinder, but a plywood cylinder no less.
The second patent is the cabinet design for the prototype Circa 75 that now resides on display at the Waterloo Regional Museum in Kitchner, Ontario, along with other Electrohome goodies. I'm still working on trying to get someone up at the museum to snap a few close-up photos of the prototype so we can get a good look at what the controls of one of the coolest pieces of 20th century design could do!
