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Anyone interested in a Modernola? Has been refinished but looks to pretty nice.. Probably needs a reproducer rebuild.. Located in Kansas with pickup preferred...Not mine, just passing along
eBay 111787624264
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Modernola on eBay
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Re: Modernola on eBay
I was blown away by this magnificent and odd phonograph. I wish I could buy it. Thanks for posting. Here are the pictures from ebay.
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An interesting piece, and the price strikes me as being fairly reasonable. Off in Kansas, though.
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Re: Modernola on eBay
It has been re-finished and not a good job at all.
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Re: Modernola on eBay
Relisted- starting bid of $750, with a reserve. In the previous auction the seller wanted well over a grand for it. A nice machine even with the lousy refinish, but you could buy far better machines for that kind of money: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Moder ... 1006592896?
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For what it is worth...the shade is not even close to the original one.
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I've seen pictures of them with a variety of shades, and if this one isn't a period shade it is a good recreation of one. I'm pretty sure the upright turning of the lamp is new though- and it is too complicated a turning. It seems a lot of these lost the lamp entirely over the years.Hailey wrote:For what it is worth...the shade is not even close to the original one.
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The shade is different from the one more elaborate one shown in this advertisement, although its design seems consistent with shades of the period. Finial looks incorrect. A period ad seen in a June 2014 APS article dealing with "off brand" machines states that "Shades provided in many effects," which I take to mean in many different styles. That being the case, the shade on this one could well be original, as the seller states.
http://www.antiquephono.org/brand-talki ... j-wakeman/
The refinish is much too light, but a refinish with a proper stain could remedy that. And you'd have to wonder if it originally might have had the painted decoration that was on some models. See, for example, pages 64-65 of George & Timothy's Phonographs with Flair: A Century of Style in Sound Reproduction.
It's been relisted and is currently up to $750, but reserve not met.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Moder ... 006592896?
Does anybody have a feel for what correct examples have been bringing at the shows?
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http://www.antiquephono.org/brand-talki ... j-wakeman/
The refinish is much too light, but a refinish with a proper stain could remedy that. And you'd have to wonder if it originally might have had the painted decoration that was on some models. See, for example, pages 64-65 of George & Timothy's Phonographs with Flair: A Century of Style in Sound Reproduction.
It's been relisted and is currently up to $750, but reserve not met.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Moder ... 006592896?
Does anybody have a feel for what correct examples have been bringing at the shows?
Clay
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Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume's Laws of Collecting
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.