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A Tale Of Two Victors
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OrthoSean
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A Tale Of Two Victors
About a week and a half ago, I was contacted by a friend of mine who was in New York City clearing out a house where two "Victrolas" were found sitting in a basement where they had been for decades and would I be interested in them. A quick photo emailed later revealed two not so run of the mill "Victrolas" and a deal was quickly made. That night, they were delivered and two more projects made their way into my house. They're pretty much finished now with the exception of a couple missing parts that may still surface during the clean out. First is an early L-door VTLA, serial #2711, which places it as early 1907 according to Baumbach:
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OrthoSean
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
The other machine was an equally dirty early non L-door XVI, the first style (type E). Other than needing the correct crank, this thing is really nice and turned out with the cleanest original finish I think I've ever seen on a machine. Complete right down to the correct original albums. If anyone has a 5/16 diameter female thread gold crank for this machine, please let me know!
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- GoJo on one side finished. The other untouched.
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- Original "dirt" inside before cleaning.
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- Amazing original finish.
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gramophoneshane
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
WOW!! What an awesome score Sean. And both VERY nice machines.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
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antique1973
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
Epic finds, very nice!
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Brad
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
One word: SWEEEET!
Why do we need signatures when we are on a first avatar basis?
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schweg
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
Those are both great and cleaned up really nicely. However, I remember reading a Tale of Two Cities in 8th grade and still can't forget how much I hated that book. Despite that, you are forgiven for bringing back bad memories since you showed us two beautiful machines!!
Steve
Steve
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alang
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Both very nice machines. Thanks for sharing.
Andreas
Both very nice machines. Thanks for sharing.
Andreas
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fonograph
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
Can you share your resto secrets with us ??? That is the most amazing finish I've seen in awhile.
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OrthoSean
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
Sure will, I'll post what I do in a new thread over the weekend. I'm just in the door from an auction where I just picked up another L-door, believe it or not!!fonograph wrote:Can you share your resto secrets with us ??? That is the most amazing finish I've seen in awhile.
Sean
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Edisone
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Re: A Tale Of Two Victors
Well, spanks @ you! How many L-Doors does a man need? Nice that they're in your care, of course. Very attractive job with the one in this thread !OrthoSean wrote:Sure will, I'll post what I do in a new thread over the weekend. I'm just in the door from an auction where I just picked up another L-door, believe it or not!!fonograph wrote:Can you share your resto secrets with us ??? That is the most amazing finish I've seen in awhile.
Sean