Anyone ever hear of a Triumphon Portable?

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Anyone ever hear of a Triumphon Portable?

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I was thinking about buying a Triumphon portable machine from an auction site. It's 12" x 10" x 5" and looks like a miniature HMV 102.

Any experience with these?

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Can you post a link to the auction site?

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Here you go.

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/59974033

By the way, I shouldn't have to mention this, but I call dibs! LOL

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I tried the link and got "www.shopgoodwill.com refused to connect".

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Here's a picture. It's probably an 8" turntable.
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epigramophone wrote:Here is what I have found :

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/unbekannt ... guage_id=2
An amusing specification found there:

Power type and voltage Solar- and/or muscle driven, also addl. power jack possible

Didn't know solar technology was so advanced so early!

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Missing crank :roll:

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I missed it too...family was saying the rosary. No sweat. Record players run second to religion...

(Which proves how important they really are! :D )

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VanEpsFan1914 wrote:I missed it too...family was saying the rosary. No sweat. Record players run second to religion...

(Which proves how important they really are! :D )
You missed it and it went for $27.88? How does that happen? Since you claimed "dibs", I passed on it, but would have bid $100 and skipped the rosary...
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