Somebody (not me) is offering a Columbia Regent desk type phonograph for $75 near Salem OR on Craigslist. The cabinet needs refinished but appears to be all there. Ad says it works. If only I was a little closer and had more room!
https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/atq ... 42729.html
Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $75
- CDBPDX
- Victor V
- Posts: 2005
- Joined: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:43 am
- Personal Text: A Hobbyist Specializing in Sales and Repair of Spring Motor Phonographs
- Location: Castle Rock, WA
- Contact:
Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $75
Cliff's Vintage Music Shoppe, Castle Rock, WA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIz_IpaVrW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIz_IpaVrW8
- dzavracky
- Victor IV
- Posts: 1558
- Joined: Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:37 pm
- Personal Text: college collector
- Location: Knoxville Tennessee
- Contact:
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
If this was not 2,600 miles away from me I would go get it today oh well
I think I have a thing for those columbia banner decals
I think I have a thing for those columbia banner decals
-
- Victor III
- Posts: 727
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:27 pm
- Location: Peoria, IL
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
Really cool. Unfortunately missing one paw foot. Heck of a deal, though
- AZ*
- Victor IV
- Posts: 1143
- Joined: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:51 pm
- Location: USA
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
These are interesting machines, but they take up a lot of space. Someone tried to sell me one 10 or 15 years ago. It really isn't practical as a desk.
Best regards ... AZ*
- Granby
- Victor II
- Posts: 403
- Joined: Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:41 am
- Personal Text: The Granby Phonograph Historian
- Location: Eastern North Carolina
- Contact:
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
That is pretty neat. But, too far for me. I am beginning to notice some of these unique phonographs are similar to some of the collector car listings I seem to find. All the way across the country from where I live.... Anybody else?
- phonogfp
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 7404
- Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:08 pm
- Personal Text: "If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will." - A. Lincoln
- Location: New York's Finger Lakes
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
As a matter of fact, Columbia never marketed the Regent as resembling a desk, but as a "library table." A century later, it looks more like a desk to our eyes.AZ* wrote:These are interesting machines, but they take up a lot of space. Someone tried to sell me one 10 or 15 years ago. It really isn't practical as a desk.
George P.
-
- Victor IV
- Posts: 1269
- Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:53 pm
- Location: Michiana
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
Here are some photos showing the Regent in its native
environment. Several photographs of America Woman’s
League club rooms from 1910-1912:
environment. Several photographs of America Woman’s
League club rooms from 1910-1912:
- Attachments
-
- 4CB47166-823B-4E69-BB67-C20CED59F871.jpeg (86.25 KiB) Viewed 2050 times
-
- 4F043535-13FB-4DFA-9680-029602B1AA9B.jpeg (98.88 KiB) Viewed 2050 times
-
- E9E4F043-24CF-4C28-8A1F-4664F176F629.jpeg (80.59 KiB) Viewed 2050 times
- dzavracky
- Victor IV
- Posts: 1558
- Joined: Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:37 pm
- Personal Text: college collector
- Location: Knoxville Tennessee
- Contact:
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
Nice pictures! Did the regent not have a lid support and that is how the lid was supposed to open?
It would be really awesome if the one in the picture is the one for sale
It would be really awesome if the one in the picture is the one for sale
- marcapra
- Victor V
- Posts: 2180
- Joined: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:29 am
- Personal Text: Man who ride on tiger find it very difficult to dismount! Charlie Chan
- Location: Temecula, CA
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
Thanks, Uncle Vanya for those superb period interior photos! Wonderful pictures of the past! I have two Columbia Regents, one is the library table, and the other is the Baby Regent meant to resemble an end table. The Regent pictured in the ad is a very early one from 1909. Mine is also an early one without the later Columbia horn opening louvers. What makes this one different is the flap lid on top of the table. On mine, the turntable pulls out on a drawer mechanism. The oak versions are one of the very few phonographs of the period in the Arts and Crafts style. It's true these were never marketed to be desks. So I always wondered what is the definition of "library table" anyway? Maybe it just means a table not meant for eating on? Or maybe it means a table for putting a lamp and some books for your library? Because of their size, these can be very difficult to sell. But I saw an oak one, sell at the APS show a couple years ago for about $350. These are actually great pieces of furniture for your phonograph room, or man cave, as you can display lots of things on that huge expanse of table, especially if you have one like mine with the drawer instead of the flap lid.
- dzavracky
- Victor IV
- Posts: 1558
- Joined: Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:37 pm
- Personal Text: college collector
- Location: Knoxville Tennessee
- Contact:
Re: Columbia Regent (Desk Type) Phonograph - Salem, OR CL $7
That was my though.
Put mostly because I am using a circular table now and it takes a surprising amount of space
Not that this one would take up leas, but it’d be a lot more useful
Put mostly because I am using a circular table now and it takes a surprising amount of space
Not that this one would take up leas, but it’d be a lot more useful