What the Heck Did I Just Buy?

[De Soto Frank]

Shane's machine has a Columbia brake / speed control... the later lever-type, circa 1908 - 12 ?

The "plunger" type was a hold-over from the earlier "front-mount machines".


I'm curious about the original mounting for the OEM tone-arm: was it a deck-mount (like a "Favorite" or "Jewel", or a cast-iron elbow on the side, such as an "Eclipse" ?

[Shane]

Mine was most certainly a deck-mount. No holes anywhere to indicate a cast iron elbow. Not sure about the other one discussed on this thread.

[briankeith]

Here you go

[Shane]

Thank you thank you!! Now at least I know what I'm looking for.

[briankeith]

Happy to help.

[Teak]

Found this on german Ebay. They call it "Playerette"

http://www.ebay.de/itm/kleines-Grammoph ... SwN6JY~Lp8

[Shane]

Wow, thank you. It's nice to know what the nearly unreadable tag on the bottom of mine says!

I'm realizing this arm and reproducer may be a very tough thing to find. I have a generic no-name reproducer made by Columbia, and also a cast iron deck mount. If I got a Columbia Favorite-type tonearm, I would at least have something in the Columbia family to go with it. Heck, anything is better than what's on it now.