A c.1802 George III gramophone for £3000!

[epigramophone]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-III-M ... %7Ciid%3A1

I have advised the seller that what he actually has is a c.1929 Micro-Perophone Chromogram Model MP25. Georgian yes, but George V not George III.
What were the chances of it being spotted by a Chromogram owner? Will the listing be revised? Will the price be reduced? He will be lucky to get £300 let alone £3000.

[Orchorsol]

Well spotted Roger and well done for trying to educate the owner. I've long since given up doing so - for some reason that lapsed a few weeks when I spotted an HMV 97 portable that the seller had listed describing it as a 102 in the title and a 101 in the description, but was sworn at for my troubles (not for the first time) despite being polite, not overbearing, and making it clear that I was only meaning to be helpful. There are some nasty folk out there!

[phonosandradios]

Pity its been mucked about with.

[Henry]

Pity its been mucked about with.

Yeah, who would ever dream of putting some crummy old turntable and funky tone arm in a unit with that lovely modern turntable? Some people....you just never can tell.

On the other hand, George III. That name sounds familiar, somehow. Wasn't he involved in some colonial debacle a couple or three hundred years ago?

[epigramophone]

Yes, and then he went mad .

[Henry]

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

[marcapra]

This phonograph from 1802 has got to be the oldest in existence! Just think, Beethoven could have heard his piano sonatas and string quartets on it.

[Henry]

If only he could hear!