Frankenphone or original

[rizbone]

Just wondering if anyone can tell me how much of this machine is real. It looks like older parts, but I have never heard of a Tonarm Premiere phonograph and I have never seen a back bracket painted with a crackle silver finish. The back bracket and taper tube look like victor but the horn is a screw in and very heavy.

[Phototone]

While it "may" be made up of parts from different machines, and I'm not sure of this, it appears to be all vintage.

[Phonofreak]

I'm going to use the new named coined in the Forum. I think this is a Bitsa. It looks like a reproduction Victor back bracket painted to look like crackled silver. Victor bracket were always black with gold filigree and HMV were nickeled. Very late HMV machines had a plain black bracket with no gold filigree. It looks like the parts were "fitted" together. It looks like junk.
Harvey Kravitz

[rizbone]

Yeah, it looks pieced together, but the shop only wants $150 so I figured if anyone recognized the parts I might just pick it up and see what else came along later. Doesn't look like a piece of junk, the motor board is birds-eye maple and the parts look old, but I think it might be three machines joined together.

[Jerry B.]

Maybe it's one of those "bitsa" machines. Jerry

[Phonofreak]

I can't tell for sure, but it looks like a swapped motor from a portable. The turn table looks like a portable one. For $150.00, that's not too bad. You might find the right parts to restore it.
Harvey Kravitz

[RAK402]

The finish on the are appears to be silver "hammer-tone" as opposed to crackle.

Crackle, at least the way it used to be defined was a "typewriter" or very fine wrinkle finish (as on a Crackle Black Lionel 400E locomotive-very scarce and beautiful).

[STARR-OLA]

Its pieced together but i like it nonetheless .for 150.00 it would be a fun project to get it sounding great.