wayne NJ antique phonograph show - april 2011

[brianu]

although I was really looking forward to it, something came up and unfortunately I couldn't make it. if anyone here attended, might you be able to post some highlights, photos, or any sort of report about what you saw and how it was?

[phonogfp]

I didn't take photos, but was at the parking lot on Saturday from about 10:15am until 12:30. The weather was beautiful. About 15 dealers were set up, and although I saw lots of fellows going through boxes of records, I didn't see many machines selling.

On Sunday I stopped in from 10:30 until 12:30. The parking lot was pretty full, and it looked like a nice crowd. Shoulder to shoulder in many areas. My wife, who was patiently sitting in our car, said that she saw many people carrying things out to their vehicles. It looked like things were selling from my vantage point inside too. Some of the dealers I talked with complained that there wasn't much for them to buy, but sales were reported as pretty good. Interestingly, TWO Duplex Phonographs showed up for sale by separate dealers. One was sold by the time I saw it Sunday.

It was nice to see a healthy crowd at the Wayne show. I can recall recent shows when by 11:30 it was dead. Not this time.

George P.

[jvic]

This was my first time to the Wayne show so take my comments from that perspective. IT WAS AWESOME!!! I saw a huge variety of machines, parts, records, and dealers. I was there from about 10-11:30 and it was very hard to walk down each aisle due to the number of people. I saw a good deal of cash changing hands on the smaller items, with the expected amount of conversations and good old American bid/ask taking place on the machines and cabinets. My highlight was meeting Don Gfell and dropping off my Oak Spear Tip for it's collar repair and "refresh". I picked up more education about the models and the pricing that is incredibly valuable. I even learned about the elbow on my Victor V which apparently is an early model with the limiting pins as opposed to the later model with the two level bevel. Prices on the machines varied widely but seemed tagged as "market price", ie no screaming deals to be seen. Best pieces I saw were a "baby grand phonograph" ($1,900), a three legged dual curved front auto opening cylinder disk cabinet in mahogany ($7,500), a real nice original Victor V with speartip ($3500), two Vic VI's both with mahogany horns(one restored at $5,500, and one original with missing tag completely ($4,500), and of course...Don Gfell and his magnificent display of machines and horns. Hope this helps.....somewhat at least......can you tell I have a bias towards external horn Victors?