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Yankee Ingenuity.
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Panatropia
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Re: Yankee Ingenuity.
The first record the buyer (if there is one) plays should be "The Harmonious Blacksmith" 
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Re: Yankee Ingenuity.
Oh no, that's painful. Vary rare indeed. That idiot would have made more money just leaving the incomplete machine alone.
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Re: Yankee Ingenuity.
The drilled and tapped holes in the horn mount display an unusually skilful grasp of adaptive mechanics...wonder if that is the original horn that's been adapted as well.
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Re: Yankee Ingenuity.
Wow, that hurts. 
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Re: Yankee Ingenuity.
Flow some low temp brazing rod in there, grind, polish and re-plate and you'll have most of a great little phonograph. To my mind, I wouldn't pay more than possibly 5-550 as it stands.
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Re: Yankee Ingenuity.
This was offered (and sold) at an auction on June 4 in Sandwich, MA. I knew about it well ahead of time, realized it was an interesting cobble-job but that it was also mostly good original Zonophone and Victor parts. I was initially interested until I realized it would require a lot more windshield time than I was comfortable with to get to the auction and so I said to heck with it. It brought $400 (see below) and obviously the seller is trying to flip it for a tidy profit. Below is the auction link for it:
http://sandwichauction.hibid.com/lot/25 ... ef=catalog
$400 was a fair price for it and I would have paid more for it myself if I was at the auction. You have to admire the prior owner's attempt at trying to use this machine with limited access to the correct parts.
Doug
http://sandwichauction.hibid.com/lot/25 ... ef=catalog
$400 was a fair price for it and I would have paid more for it myself if I was at the auction. You have to admire the prior owner's attempt at trying to use this machine with limited access to the correct parts.
Doug