Show us your best machine find of 2024.

[KC Kent]

Not necessarily super rare, but I finally found a Vic O to replace the one I sold many years ago - thanks to Terry Baer! This one has the features I really was wanting including the straight taper arm (no gooseneck) and the correct Vic O reproducer. The thing that sold me was the incredible original condition of the machine and horn.

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[JerryVan]

This will seem droll to most, but 2024 had me stumble upon my very first open horn machine, the Vic III with a matching cabinet (not shown as our Christmas tree is currently in the spot where the cabinet usually goes).

It was quite a mess when I got it but gets played almost daily now. I feel like now I can relax and if one happens to cross my path again, so be it, but it is no longer a megalomaniacal distraction in my brain

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For your very first open horn machine, you sure scored a nice one! Congratulations on your find!

[phonogfp]

An 1899 2-volt electric Type GR Repeating Graphophone. Bought from the great-grandson of the original owner. An article on this machine (with more pictures) and its history will be in the March 2025 issue of the Antique Phonograph Society magazine.

George P.

[oceanlinerfanatic]

For twenty bucks at an antique store I found this. It is my first open horn disc machine! 1918 Swiss Thorens machine!