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Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:17 pm
by Silvertone
Valecnik, I would love to see a picture of the matching key that came with your Gothic Victrola. Any chance you could post a photo?
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:10 am
by Valecnik
Silvertone wrote:Valecnik, I would love to see a picture of the matching key that came with your Gothic Victrola. Any chance you could post a photo?
Silvertone, so would I. Believe it or not the Gothic was among the first phonos in my collection and about the ONLY thing I ever paid under market price for, $350 in about 1984. I looked for pictures here but since most of my old "hardcopy pictures" are in boxes back in Minnesota, I was not able to find anything.
It was like a forged iron, matching the rest of the metal works, flat black and silver color, very rough surface and extraordinarily large and well, Gothic looking.
I sold it to a gentleman in California shortly after buying it. It's probably just as well. At the time I was living in a house with 3 male roomates and it likely would not have survived undamaged for long.
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:41 am
by Valecnik
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:51 am
by Steve
Curiously, it looks great when other horn machines on sitting on top of the lid either side of the actual playing mechanism - I'm sure that was never the idea, but from a "collector's perpective" it does make it an interesting (and potentially useful) addition to a collection.
Does anyone have the horn aperture dimensions please? It's also occurred to me that it might just be the biggest internal horn machine prduced by Victor/HMV pre-1925? It certainly looks quite deep.
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:33 pm
by Moooperator
I emailed the person who had the Gothic on Ebay for sale in Nov. 2007... maybe he can verify if these are his pictures someone hi-jacked.
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:51 pm
by schweg
They are the pictures from the Ebay listing. I promise!! The machine I show in my pics is one and the same as the Ebay one. I will take additional pics and post this evening if time permits.
Steve
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:20 pm
by Moooperator
I too Steve thought it was the same... I remembered the tape residue looking stuff on the tonearm and it had the same issues with the feet and a couple of carvings missing from the side.
Hey, maybe i could post some fake HMV special case 1A on craigslist and see if I get any bites from the guys over the pond. Maybe they'll do western union or direct bank transfer for a few grand. Maybe I'll even get a buyer from Nigeria!! Wouldn't that be a complete reversal of roles?!?!
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:21 pm
by Steve
Hey Moo, do you want me to Western Union say $7,000 over to you for the promise that one day when you've got it working (
) and you're bored with it, you'll sell it to me? I don't expect to be able to buy the machine for that measly price, all I'm buying is the promise that I
can buy it later!
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:00 pm
by Moooperator
Now that sounds like a deal! Please send the money in rubles - aren't they holding their value better than dollars and Euros??!!
BTW The owner of this fine machine in New York said that those were his photos....
Re: Victrola Gothic model on Craigslist UK! :-)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:01 pm
by schweg