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These are still available at reduced prices if anyone wants to grab a bargain!

Steve wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 9:56 am These are still available at reduced prices if anyone wants to grab a bargain!

Wouldn’t want to deprive you mate!

The same seller has a red one...
https://www.ebay.de/itm/254976651124?_t ... 101224.m-1

These are just awful. I can't say I have ever seen a worse job of recovering. Just awful.

chunnybh wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 1:03 am These are just awful. I can't say I have ever seen a worse job of recovering. Just awful.

I can certainly see "faults" in the joins here and there but the leather is presumably quite a lot thicker than the tissue paper thick material HMV originally used. Unless the restorer chose to use an all out different approach and reproduce a stitched leather case, I doubt he could have done a much better job to be fair.

Someone obviously read my last comment ( ) and has now bought the green 101 for 1850 Euros.

Boy, the market for gramophones is super weird and unbalanced at the moment. Are we witnessing a new younger generation entering the market without the reference books and collective knowledge gained by the older generations over the past 50 years?