Is this gramophone a reproduction or original ?

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Re: Is this gramophone a reproduction or original ?

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As a machine it is junk, but some of these fall into the category of folk art.

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Re: Is this gramophone a reproduction or original ?

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Here's another, recently advertised here in HongKong on a local Marketplace App for the equivalent of five hundred quid... I was almost taken in until I researched the name Vara-Phone!
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Re: Is this gramophone a reproduction or original ?

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bikesteve wrote:Here's another, recently advertised here in HongKong on a local Marketplace App for the equivalent of five hundred quid... I was almost taken in until I researched the name Vara-Phone!
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Except this one is almost certainly genuine ! But not worth £500 in that condition

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Re: Is this gramophone a reproduction or original ?

Post by Marco Gilardetti »

poodling around wrote:Interesting variations for this 'make' of gramophone.

This one I actually quite like.

The record looks a bit weird - perhaps it belonged to salvador dali ..... or a werewolf

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Good grief, one has to see all sort of things!!! Look at that needle cup repurposed as a soundbox' "stand" :roll: and my oh my they dared to fit a venerable HMV 5A/5B on this... thing!!!

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