![[The Talking Machine Forum - For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings]](/styles/we_universal/theme/images/the_talking_machine_forum.png)
Cool or ugly?
-
oltractor
- Victor I
- Posts: 167
- Joined: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:27 pm
- Location: NE Pennsylvania USA
Cool or ugly?
I can't decide if this is cool or ugly, any idea what it started life as? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 635059355/
-
gramophone-georg
- Victor Monarch
- Posts: 4348
- Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:55 pm
- Personal Text: Northwest Of Normal
- Location: Eugene/ Springfield Oregon USA
Re: Cool or ugly?
Why can't it be both? That's how my wife thinks of me, I'm sure.
"He who dies with the most shellac wins"- some nutty record geek
I got PTSD from Peter F's avatar
I got PTSD from Peter F's avatar
-
Django
- Victor IV
- Posts: 1701
- Joined: Thu Apr 13, 2017 7:31 pm
- Location: New Hampshire’s West Coast
Re: Cool or ugly?
Worst case the brake is worth the asking price. It probably has an early motor and turntable along with a nice female crank. If it was closer I would jump on it.
To answer the question, I think that it is ugly and kind of cool too. It’s a perfect parts machine because the original machine is already gone and then parts can be used to finish some original machines. The old Mahogany cabinet could be useful as well.
To answer the question, I think that it is ugly and kind of cool too. It’s a perfect parts machine because the original machine is already gone and then parts can be used to finish some original machines. The old Mahogany cabinet could be useful as well.
-
Granby
- Victor II
- Posts: 450
- Joined: Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:41 am
- Personal Text: The Granby Phonograph Historian
- Location: Eastern North Carolina
- Contact:
Re: Cool or ugly?
If this didn't start life as a European machine.... it almost looks like one of those very early upright Grafonolas.... I will glance at the book later to see if I can spot the cabinet. Either way, I agree with the others - the price isn't that bad for what you're getting. At least, your buddy won't have the same machine in his collection... LOL
-
epigramophone
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 5700
- Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:21 pm
- Personal Text: An analogue relic trapped in a digital world.
- Location: The Somerset Levels, UK.
Re: Cool or ugly?
Those of you with a copy of "His Master's Gramophone" can view a similar HMV cabinet on Page 103, Fig 4.15.
It did not appear in British catalogues, but here is it's British cousin the HMV Junior Grand.
It did not appear in British catalogues, but here is it's British cousin the HMV Junior Grand.
- Attachments
-
-
poodling around
- Victor V
- Posts: 2313
- Joined: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:52 am
Re: Cool or ugly?
Very cool I think.
Is it made from Mahogany ? Well worth one hundred dollars - to me any-way.
A veritable Brad Pitt of gramophones !
(I wouldn't mind owning the house it is photographed in as well !).
Is it made from Mahogany ? Well worth one hundred dollars - to me any-way.
A veritable Brad Pitt of gramophones !
(I wouldn't mind owning the house it is photographed in as well !).
-
Curt A
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 6845
- Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:32 pm
- Personal Text: Needle Tins are Addictive
- Location: Belmont, North Carolina
Re: Cool or ugly?
(I wouldn't mind owning the house it is photographed in as well !).
The interior is nice, but deceiving... the exterior is another story...
The interior is nice, but deceiving... the exterior is another story...
- Screenshot 2023-11-14 at 9.34.48 AM.png (523.93 KiB) Viewed 715 times
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
-
JerryVan
- Victor Monarch Special
- Posts: 6588
- Joined: Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:08 pm
- Location: Southeast MI
Re: Cool or ugly?
As Chevy Chase once said, "Oh, it's not so bad. A little spackle, a little paint, a little napalm..."Curt A wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:38 am (I wouldn't mind owning the house it is photographed in as well !).
The interior is nice, but deceiving... the exterior is another story...
Screenshot 2023-11-14 at 9.34.48 AM.png
-
JeffR1
- Victor III
- Posts: 567
- Joined: Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:04 pm
- Location: British Columbia Vancouver Island Canada
Re: Cool or ugly?
It looks too much like an icebox for my tastes _ those hinges. 
-
poodling around
- Victor V
- Posts: 2313
- Joined: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:52 am
Re: Cool or ugly?
Ha ha !!! Good one !Curt A wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:38 am (I wouldn't mind owning the house it is photographed in as well !).
The interior is nice, but deceiving... the exterior is another story...
Screenshot 2023-11-14 at 9.34.48 AM.png
