Thanks for the suggestions, guys! I will definitely be doing like Curt and Jerry suggest and de-"Cline" from trying to save shabby decals. Time for some photographic replicas of the old ones.
I got the machine today, and, as usual, the seller did the eBay Packing Shuffle
HOW TO PACK A GRAPHOPHONE, eBay Style!
Take reproducer out, break stylus holder, bubblewrap, and throw inside case.
Remove crank, wrap, ditto.
Leave Sousa march on mandrel, reminding Buyer that you, Seller, don't know jack squat.
Set lid on machine, and, because lid latches are for pansies, wrap the whole thing in more bubblewrap.
Find super-sketchy crappy looking box.
Throw in styrofoam peanuts.
Throw in phonograph, sideways.
Throw in more peanuts.
Add tape. Not too much; gotta save a tree, especially a plastic-tape tree, right?
Tap-dance on lid drunkenly, to ensure that one internal corner support comes off and the right side top moulding is loosened up good and proper!
Send by FedEx.
Expect pleasant feedback and well wishes
So now I have a very complicated old reproducer that is going to need serious help from the Vollema or Sitko side of the hobby (but it has a mint sapphire ball stylus, yay!) and a lid with some crunchmarks someone has hastily glued up with MODERN GLUE!
Now all the king's horses--his old ones, I suppose--will be needed to put this phonographic Humpty Dumpty together again. I'm talking hide glue here.
It does run nicely, very quiet for an old phonograph--the start button has a positive snap rather than the mushy feel of an Edison start lever. Gears are in good shape, needs some cleaning and finishing but should be nice. I'm saving it for when I fix the 1911 Edison Standard and when I find a base for my Amberola 30. That Lyric Reproducer is going to be kicking--it looks like some early attempt at cylinder Orthophonic!