Best finds of 2021?

[gramophone78]

Last year was fairly quiet for me. I was able to find the one remaining Berliner tip tray needed to complete that part of my collection (black border rectangle). Other than that, a few very early Canadian Berliner records.

[MikeB]

Machines came and went but this one is a keeper. An Edison Fireside Model B with the original blue flowered horn and two-footed crane, sitting on top of a cylinder cabinet, full of cylinders. I'd been looking for just the horn for years, and then the entire thing showed up. It even had a partial copy of the original instructions.

[NEKTREG]

2021 was a very good year. Got more than 300 new records.
My best find was a Electrola 203 cabinet. A much rarer Version for Germany than the HMV

[drh]

...Ken Woodbury once told me that his favorite machine was the last one that he brought home. ...

From a Frank C. Stanley record:

I love the last one the best of all,
The old loves no longer my heart enthrall.
I'm constant, I fear,
to the girl who is near.
Oh, many the loves I recall!
I do think that she is the fairest to me,
and I swear I'll be true to eternity.
But I soon change my song
when the next comes along,
for the last one is best of all!

[Inigo]

[fran604g]

...Ken Woodbury once told me that his favorite machine was the last one that he brought home. ...

From a Frank C. Stanley record:

I love the last one the best of all,
The old loves no longer my heart enthrall.
I'm constant, I fear,
to the girl who is near.
Oh, many the loves I recall!
I do think that she is the fairest to me,
and I swear I'll be true to eternity.
But I soon change my song
when the next comes along,
for the last one is best of all!

I never knew there was a song about me...

[1913Concert]

My favorite find of 2021 came near the end of the year: a beautiful Edison A-275 found on Facebook marketplace offered by an antique dealer who was selling it for a friend for $125.00 I have always admired the beautiful inlay work on these but had never before had the opportunity to purchase one. The photos show it after a good cleaning. Reaching behind the drawer yielded the wooden reproducer box with the serial number of the reproducer on the machine hand written on the box. Also a bottle of "Edison Diamond Oil." As if that were not good enough two weeks later the dealer texted me that the friend had found the records that were in it and I could have them if I wanted! No extra charge. I went right down and picked up about 40 very early diamond discs including one of the very short lived "Preliminary Couplings" that were only made in 1912/13. I consider myself very fortunate! Good Luck to all in 2022!

[Roaring20s]

My favorite find of 2021 came near the end of the year: a beautiful Edison A-275 found on Facebook marketplace offered by an antique dealer who was selling it for a friend for $125.00 I have always admired the beautiful inlay work on these but had never before had the opportunity to purchase one. The photos show it after a good cleaning. Reaching behind the drawer yielded the wooden reproducer box with the serial number of the reproducer on the machine hand written on the box. Also a bottle of "Edison Diamond Oil." As if that were not good enough two weeks later the dealer texted me that the friend had found the records that were in it and I could have them if I wanted! No extra charge. I went right down and picked up about 40 very early diamond discs including one of the very short lived "Preliminary Couplings" that were only made in 1912/13. I consider myself very fortunate! Good Luck to all in 2022! IMG_0910.JPG

A best find and a gift at that.

James.

[Lucius1958]

My favorite find of 2021 came near the end of the year: a beautiful Edison A-275 found on Facebook marketplace offered by an antique dealer who was selling it for a friend for $125.00 I have always admired the beautiful inlay work on these but had never before had the opportunity to purchase one. The photos show it after a good cleaning. Reaching behind the drawer yielded the wooden reproducer box with the serial number of the reproducer on the machine hand written on the box. Also a bottle of "Edison Diamond Oil." As if that were not good enough two weeks later the dealer texted me that the friend had found the records that were in it and I could have them if I wanted! No extra charge. I went right down and picked up about 40 very early diamond discs including one of the very short lived "Preliminary Couplings" that were only made in 1912/13. I consider myself very fortunate! Good Luck to all in 2022! IMG_0910.JPG

A magnificent find! Very elegant, too!

- Bill

[phonogfp]

My favorite find of 2021 came near the end of the year: a beautiful Edison A-275 found on Facebook marketplace offered by an antique dealer who was selling it for a friend for $125.00 I have always admired the beautiful inlay work on these but had never before had the opportunity to purchase one. The photos show it after a good cleaning. Reaching behind the drawer yielded the wooden reproducer box with the serial number of the reproducer on the machine hand written on the box. Also a bottle of "Edison Diamond Oil." As if that were not good enough two weeks later the dealer texted me that the friend had found the records that were in it and I could have them if I wanted! No extra charge. I went right down and picked up about 40 very early diamond discs including one of the very short lived "Preliminary Couplings" that were only made in 1912/13. I consider myself very fortunate! Good Luck to all in 2022! IMG_0910.JPG

One of my favorite Edison Disc models! The bedplate on yours looks great too - - which is certainly not always the case with A-series machines. Congratulations!

George P.