Edison Bell Class M Concert

saxymojo · Post by **saxymojo** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:52 am

Saw this Concert on an auction site in South Australia today, looks nice, Sold with 20 cylinders.

Is there many of these around? this is the first Concert model that I have seen.

Marcel

Le0 · Post by **Le0** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:53 am

that's a nice machine... there aren't that many around.

soundgen · Post by **soundgen** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:36 pm

very nice item what did it go for ?

saxymojo · Post by **saxymojo** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:26 am

It sold for $20K + 16% buyers premium

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:03 pm

From what I've seen of Class M machines,
that is a very reasonable price.

He could turn right around and sell it for
$30K.

Chuck

saxymojo · Post by **saxymojo** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:38 am

Got the auction house to send me some more pics.

I noticed that the corner design on the top deck is not right, maybe it has been re painted or replaced from a SM.

Andersun · Post by **Andersun** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:53 am

Looks like a Class M was converted to a Class M Concert at some later time. You can see a hole was drilled through the mandrel support column and a pulley shaft was secured with a screw which held the small belt twist pulleys. I may be wrong but I don't believe that configuration is original. It's obvious the pin-stripe doesn't match. Also, the motor cover plate looks reproduction.

phonogfp · Post by **phonogfp** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:24 am

Steve's right again! Since the North American Phonograph Company went into receivership in 1894, and the Concert wasn't introduced until 1899, it's clear that this machine was put together later on.

George P.

saxymojo · Post by **saxymojo** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:32 am

Hi Steve

The pulley may be correct, I have seen the same set up on a class M on Youtube, It sure is an interesting machine though. I would like to know it's history. What I do know, it was part of a huge collection owned by Dr Garry Scroop, the auctioneer told me, Garry owned the machine since 1960, he brought it to Australia from the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF7sV4YXdcg

Regards Marcel

Andersun · Post by **Andersun** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:40 am

phonogfp wrote:Steve's right again! Since the North American Phonograph Company went into receivership in 1894, and the Concert wasn't introduced until 1899, it's clear that this machine was put together later on.

George P.

George,
From the Class M and Class E Concerts you have seen, were the belt twist pulleys supported on both ends by part of the upper bed-plate casting like the early Class M upper works? Or did Edison supply later style upper bed-plates with the configuration shown by this Class M Concert and the Class M in the U-Tube video that Marcel just pointed out?

Very interesting Marcel....

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