Victor Console + Records in OR — $400 (OBO?)

[MordEth]

This might be of interest, although I don’t know my Victor console models from the cabinet shape as well as I should and was not having any luck identifying it from the Victor-Victrola product page.

There are a surprising number of Victrolas to be found on Craigslist.

— MordEth

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Antique Victrola Phonograph — $400 (Tigard, OR)

Reply to: sale-hxfxm-1108783665@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-04-05, 6:00PM PDT

Great antique piece of furniture. Hand crank and wonderful sound. Plays 78s and we have a collection of approximately 50-75 that goes with the Victrola.

If you want more information and/or have questions, please email or call Dave at 503-442-9344 We are asking $400, but will consider offers.

• Location: Tigard, OR
• It’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests.

Craigslist PostingID: 1108783665

[brianu]

you probably won't find much information about that one on the victor victrola page... it looks like a fairly standard offbrand... and I've never been fond of that sort of tonearm set-up - not only is it that troublesome pot metal, but it's also kind of heavy and clumsy and probably hell on the records.

[MordEth]

it looks like a fairly standard offbrand...

Ah. That’d explain it. Isn’t that a Victor plate on it, though? (Hence me trying to find it among Victor’s machines...)

— MordEth

[brianu]

it looks like a fairly standard offbrand...

Ah. That’d explain it. Isn’t that a Victor plate on it, though? (Hence me trying to find it among Victor’s machines...)

— MordEth

I'm quite certain it's not a victor plate - although I can't quite make out which brand it says (maybe vitanola - they had some bland cabinets like that, and used that sort of tonearm assembly).

[solophoneman]

Yes, definitely not a Victor, but an off brand type from the late teens or early twenties, cheaply made with pot metal parts. A poor imitation of a Victor Product. There are still many many of these pretenders out there, passing themselves off as honest to goodness Victrolas, the name originated and patented by Eldridge R. Johnson the owner and president of the Victor Talking Machine Company for his first internal horn machines as early as 1906.