The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

These can clean up amazingly well.

Something I discovered recently in cleaning up an equally dirty A250 is that Edison apparently lacquered their gold work. On mine, all the metal bits had turned almost black. After a fairly short soak in some ammonia, all the old blackened lacquer came off leaving the amazingly intact gold finish that was underneath.

Clay

Andersun wrote:Has anyone ever seen one of these Circassian Walnut machines or was this just advertising? If one exists, i would imagine it would bring in some good money!

Yes. One sold last year in the Stanton's auction. I believe it brought somewhere between $15,000 & $19,000. My recollection is that it was more towards the higher number.