When you stop to think about it, it would have more likely been purchased by Nick's great-grandmother, or even his great-great grandmother.GregVTLA wrote:Very nice machine! Your grandmother must’ve been very well off. This was the best you could buy until the VTLA / XVI was introduced, but nowadays no other machine seems to have the magic that this one does. I’d love to buy it, but I have nowhere near the amount of funds necessary for a machine like this. I hope it goes to a great home!
Greg
I just turned 60, and am well old enough to be a grandfather. My own grandmother passed away at age 91, 21 years ago. She was born in 1906, which was about the time that Nick's Vic.VI left the factory. That means that if this talking machine had been a part of my grandmother's childhood, it would have been purchased by her parents--both of whom were born in the 1870s.
Kinda' scary to think about how time marches on!
My mother--who was a great-grandmother and passed away at age 90 last year--bought her first phonograph when she was 21. It was an Arvin 151-TC like this one -- https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/arvin_151 ... c_chr.html It was still in use until about the early 1970s. (Wish I had it today. )
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Nick, have you had a chance to do any research concerning the machine's history with your family? Are there any very old relatives who might know something about it? Though not necessarily from a monetary standpoint, provenance always adds to the value of an object.
OrthoFan