SOLD: Oak Victrola X - $50

[gemering]

Here is a nice little project machine.

Please view all of the photos.

PM with any questions.

The good: Exhibition reproducer, nice metal dealer tag, needle cup, complete machine.

The bad: Gouge along the top left molding, one back leg re-glued, motor not working, some hammer marks in lid, needs a really good cleaning.

Can deliver to Wayne parking lot on Saturday morning for free.

Thanks for looking.

Gene

[gemering]

Here's a few more photos

[phonogfp]

I thought that dealer's name looked familiar...

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =9&t=27511

George P.

[gemering]

Yes George,

I let Pete know that I had a machine with a tag from the same dealer,although a different size than the one he posted.
The dealer was actually located in the town I grew up in over 50 years ago.
There is incredible history in Paterson, NJ, once the toast of the east coast because of wealthy silk merchants that used the hydroelectric power of the Great Falls to run their plants.
I grew up two blocks away from those falls and old mills. At 80 feet tall the Great Falls is second only to Niagara on the east coast.
As a teenager in the 1960's who was more interested in Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Jimmy Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin, I wonder how many incredible Edison and Victor phonographs came out of the old mansions located on the east side of town and put at the curb on clean up night, because they were thought of as obsolete.
If I could only go back in time!

[De Soto Frank]

Gene,

That's a nice machine... I've only run across the X's in alligatored mahogany.


Too bad about the hammer-marks in the lid... looks like the kid from the Edison ad went "looking for the band" !


Thanks also for the info about Paterson... never new about its former glory.

[Henry]

There is incredible history in Paterson, NJ, once the toast of the east coast because of wealthy silk merchants that used the hydroelectric power of the Great Falls to run their plants.
I grew up two blocks away from those falls and old mills. At 80 feet tall the Great Falls is second only to Niagara on the east coast.

If I could only go back in time!

Interesting about the silk industry in Paterson; many companies transferred operations to Allentown, where the industry was an important one in the local economy for many years. Numerous mill buildings are extant, either empty or re-purposed as condos, etc. Another living reminder of the silk trade here are the mulberry trees, whose ancestors were planted as food for the silk worms. Trouble was, it turned out it was the "wrong" species of mulberry and the worms wouldn't eat them! Or so I've read....

No falls here, nor free power, only steam and electric.

[briankeith]

Lot's of good usable parts Gene

[gemering]

Lot's of good usable parts Gene

Brian,

I thought $100 was a fair price given the exhibition reproducer, motor, crank, needle cup, doors, etc.
I hope someone will rescue this machine.

Gene

[briankeith]

I agree - maybe even the lid dents can be "steamed" up - the machine looks good - I love oak,,, just no room any more

[gemering]

Gene,

That's a nice machine... I've only run across the X's in alligatored mahogany.


Too bad about the hammer-marks in the lid... looks like the kid from the Edison ad went "looking for the band" !


Thanks also for the info about Paterson... never new about its former glory.

Frank,

I would like to think of myself as generally subdued, but when it comes to my home town, I love to brag.
Paterson was also home to the Colt Factory (maker of the peacekeeper handgun). A Colt Paterson is prized amongst collectors of early pistols.
The modern submarine was launched in the Passaic River in the late 1800's a block from my childhood home by John Holland.
The Roger's Locomotive Works at the base of the Great Falls built many Iron Horses.
(See link below if interested)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IcO-92YN_A