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Cliff, you do realize that the machine you pictured was an extremely rare example... right?

Curt A wrote:Cliff, you do realize that the machine you pictured was an extremely rare example... right?

I know I have never seen one before. What is it? It had an excellent 2 spring Garrard 'Junior B' motor with metal motor plate & turntable and remnants of a large Blue Dot speaker bell. Had a very unusual auto-stop, too. Not certain the Garrard was original to the cabinet as the board it was attached to just had a hole roughly cut out for mounting the motor. I assumed it was from England, didn't know it was rare. I posted pictures to the forum when I got it, no one seemed able to identify it, just that it was likely European.

I just looked at my earlier post and there was no picture of the cabinet, only the motor.

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Cliff

This brings back some memories--my very first spring machine, which I still have to this day more than four decades later, was a Pathéphone model 100. It came with a bunch of Pathé sapphire records, too. Mine had the broken base, and somehow my dad, who was a skilled woodworker as well as a professional engineer, managed to make a wooden part to fix it, and that's what it still has, going strong. Note to the original poster: once you get the arm and reproducer, to play Pathé records you will need a special stylus called a "sapphire ball." Regular 78s take steel needles, but those will destroy a Pathé sapphire disk. (Pathé later put out a line called "Actuelle" that took steel needles.) The sapphire ball styli show up on eBay now and again. When I got my machine, outside a major metropolitan area, finding the stylus was a major issue, back before the Internet had made the world small. Not so, of course, any more.