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gramophone-georg wrote:

Just our luck it will inspire more brainless "artists" looking for "Victorlas" to butcher...

Yes, and of course the silver lining goes out the window when they start butchering Vernis-Martin or Circassian Victrolas, Deluxe Grafonolas, Edison Period Models, etc...

George P.

phonogfp wrote:

gramophone-georg wrote:

Just our luck it will inspire more brainless "artists" looking for "Victorlas" to butcher...

Yes, and of course the silver lining goes out the window when they start butchering Vernis-Martin or Circassian Victrolas, Deluxe Grafonolas, Edison Period Models, etc...

George P.

But those make the coolest "licker cabnits"...

phonogfp wrote:Yes, and of course the silver lining goes out the window when they start butchering Vernis-Martin or Circassian Victrolas, Deluxe Grafonolas, Edison Period Models, etc...

That reminds me of an old 'adaptive reuse' that's been around for decades -- turning candlestick telephones into lamps. Most of the ones I've seen use very common phones of little value even now, but several years ago I stumbled upon one in a local antique store that used a very rare and highly desirable phone. I bought it for $100. Aside from having had the nickel stripped down to brass, the phone was not very damaged. I took it apart, tossed the lamp, and sold the phone for $1000. I was happier about saving a rarity than I was about the profit.

TinfoilPhono wrote:

phonogfp wrote:Yes, and of course the silver lining goes out the window when they start butchering Vernis-Martin or Circassian Victrolas, Deluxe Grafonolas, Edison Period Models, etc...

That reminds me of an old 'adaptive reuse' that's been around for decades -- turning candlestick telephones into lamps. Most of the ones I've seen use very common phones of little value even now, but several years ago I stumbled upon one in a local antique store that used a very rare and highly desirable phone. I bought it for $100. Aside from having had the nickel stripped down to brass, the phone was not very damaged. I took it apart, tossed the lamp, and sold the phone for $1000. I was happier about saving a rarity than I was about the profit.

Then there are the phonograph horn lamps. You'd think they'd use Craphophone horns readily available from India, but no...

Then there are the record label coasters, record clocks, record candy bowls...

Now this is just getting silly.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/108305461/ ... gallery_16

Jwb88 wrote:Now this is just getting silly.

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That just makes me wanna hurt someone.

I'm so sick of Etsy with its stay- at- home trophy moms "upcycling" rare antiques into shabby chic underwear cabinets and dog beds, high- fiving each other for their cutting edge artsy brilliance in creating overpriced firewood from thousand- dollar heirlooms...

On March 19, I set up at a phonograph/antique show in Portland, Ore and sold a nice 11 panel Edison Home horn and another generic horn to a nice lady. She seemed quite excited to find them and paid a decent price for the pair. As she was getting ready to leave with her prizes, I asked what kind of phonograph she had, she said she had no phonographs, she was an artist and was going to make lamps out of them. ARRRGHH!!

Jwb88 wrote:Now this is just getting silly.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/108305461/ ... gallery_16

Too silly, too silly: quite agree. Get some discipline into those chaps, Sgt.-Major!

Bill

Jerry Donnell would have SOMETHING to say to those clowns!THAT is for sure!edisonplayer

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