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When I saw this, I really felt that perhaps it was not 100% genuine, that is had been partly assembled from genuine parts within a replacement cabinet. The construction of the cabinet, with the exposed screws on the lid, does look rather home grown. Then to have the tone-arm feed (upside down) directly into the horn (rather than from somewhere on the front left which would give extra length) struck me as uncharacteristic.

Has anyone seen another like this?

I must say, the condition appears to be really excellent.

The construction is certainly fairly basic and the tonearm to horn arrangement is a little out of date, being similar to the EMG Wilson horn model before Davey added a conduit, but it is authentic.There are pictures of a couple of other survivors in the British and European section of this forum under 'Expert Cadet'.