The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

My original intent was to keep it but I do not have a place for it. Also not easy to transport from Illinois to Texas. I have a extended family member interested in buying it from the estate and they want to pay what it is worth. So trying to get a realistic value.

Well, if I saw that machine at a large phonograph auction I would expect it to fetch perhaps $250, a goodly sum for a 100 in the current depressed market. Were I selling it, I would ask $400 for it and galdly accept any offer over, say, $275.

Uncle Vanya wrote:Well, if I saw that machine at a large phonograph auction I would expect it to fetch perhaps $250, a goodly sum for a 100 in the current depressed market. Were I selling it, I would ask $400 for it and galdly accept any offer over, say, $275.

I agree... and it would be nice to go to a family member. Again, the records are not rare, made in the millions, so maybe offer them with the machine for $1 a piece...

The cabinet is American Walnut; but I notice that the interior piece around the motorboard (1st pic) is mahogany stained to match. Do all better-wood consoles have mahogany inside like this? I've never noticed before.