Seller's Description: "NO. 4 victor Victrola...a truly beautiful piece and it's brought in lots of shoppers as a window display. Alas, I'm changing my window and passing the luck on to you! Runs fine" (No mention of the left front corner being chewed off)
All I can say is "What a beauty..." And reasonable too... at only $3,500...
https://www.ebay.com/i/362047208802?rt= ... %3DDefault
Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
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Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
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"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
Wow......
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
Stunning horn...and the high end reproducer...what more can I say.
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
"A beautiful piece".... of what?
"He who dies with the most shellac wins"- some nutty record geek
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
I knew you would ask, but unfortunately because of the virus, I'm not allowed to say... no sense upsetting any more people.gramophone-georg wrote:"A beautiful piece".... of what?
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
Horn looks like one of those old looney toons where the shotgot had a cork jammed in before it was shot...
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
Does dust count as patina?
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Re: Victor #4 - "A Beautiful Piece"
I have no room and it's way too expensive, but it's a Victor IV and we can't just see it rusting away like this. So I made them an offer of $250.
We will see what happens. It's not a good example, and I think the seller is just weird, but even in bad shape it's a Victor IV.
I probably won't get it--which is fine, I don't have a place for it as I'm currently sleeping on the couch. (My brother has my bed as he's visiting and that got prolonged due to quarantine.) But if I can get it, it's going to find at least somewhere until it is repaired. Probably would take me a year to get it fully in one piece. Would I rather buy my junkers from you guys? Yes. Would I rather NOT buy a Vic IV right now? Of course. Can a phonograph fan sit there and watch one decay? Not a chance.
So nothing ventured nothing gained.
We will see what happens. It's not a good example, and I think the seller is just weird, but even in bad shape it's a Victor IV.
I probably won't get it--which is fine, I don't have a place for it as I'm currently sleeping on the couch. (My brother has my bed as he's visiting and that got prolonged due to quarantine.) But if I can get it, it's going to find at least somewhere until it is repaired. Probably would take me a year to get it fully in one piece. Would I rather buy my junkers from you guys? Yes. Would I rather NOT buy a Vic IV right now? Of course. Can a phonograph fan sit there and watch one decay? Not a chance.
So nothing ventured nothing gained.