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I know of another Vic 6 with the paper mache horn. It's an early one and also has the #10 reproducer. Sorry, I can't post a photo of it.

JerryVan wrote:I know of another Vic 6 with the paper mache horn. It's an early one and also has the #10 reproducer. Sorry, I can't post a photo of it.

Interesting Jerry. Can you tell us if the horn has a red interior..??.

Here's a Victor VI with what appears to be a paper mache horn. And it was captured in its natural habitat . This is one of the marvelous photographs by Joseph Byron whose firm documented every aspect of New York life at the turn of the last century. The photographs are superb: they are so good that they look faked. This picture dates from 1907 and it's the dining room in the home of Leonard J Busby at 135 Central Park West. Lots of Grand Rapids oak furniture.And a Victor VI which was NOT in the drawing room. And Where did they keep the records? If you click on the image it will enlarge for a good look at the machines which seems to have an Exhibition sound box.
Jim

Lenoirstreetguy wrote:Here's a Victor VI with what appears to be a paper mache horn. And it was captured in its natural habitat . This is one of the marvelous photographs by Joseph Byron whose firm documented every aspect of New York life at the turn of the last century. The photographs are superb: they are so good that they look faked. This picture dates from 1907 and it's the dining room in the home of Leonard J Busby at 135 Central Park West. Lots of Grand Rapids oak furniture.And a Victor VI which was NOT in the drawing room. And Where did they keep the records? If you click on the image it will enlarge for a good look at the machines which seems to have an Exhibition sound box.
Jim

Jim, what a fascinating photo. Just makes you want to jump right in and sit down. I see what you mean about "where are the records??". The Vic 6 is sitting on a spindle legged table.

Hard to ascertain if it is an Exhibition reproducer. However, given the year....very likely. Mind you, the machine could already be a few years old at the time of the photo.

The horn looks all black.
Thank for sharing the image with us.

I hope a member gets the one coming for sale. I would love to learn more about it.

gramophone78 wrote:

JerryVan wrote:I know of another Vic 6 with the paper mache horn. It's an early one and also has the #10 reproducer. Sorry, I can't post a photo of it.

Interesting Jerry. Can you tell us if the horn has a red interior..??.

Yes, it has a red interior.

One drawback of viewing black and white pics from the era before 1950 was the widespread use of so-called Orthochromatic film. Colours in the red end of the spectrum registered as black. That's why all those family snap shots of your mother or your granny taken in the 30's and 40's make them look as if they're wearing super dark lipstick. So my point is we'll never know if that horn has a red interior.

JRT

Fontaine's auction house in Massachusetts has one coming up at its auction this June 27. It's lot 256. Paper mache horn, black on the outside, red on the inside.
https://currentauctions.fontainesauctio ... em_id=1679

I noticed that, too. Thanks for going through the trouble of posting!

Wayne,

Thanks for posting the before and after pics of your horn. I love to see how various items can be brought back from the dead... Luckily you got the horn, because it may have been tossed if it hadn't sold, as it was in a sad state. Gregg did a wonderful job on the restoration and you ended up with a unique horn for your Victor VI... congrats.

Curt

Curt A wrote:Wayne,

Thanks for posting the before and after pics of your horn. I love to see how various items can be brought back from the dead... Luckily you got the horn, because it may have been tossed if it hadn't sold, as it was in a sad state. Gregg did a wonderful job on the restoration and you ended up with a unique horn for your Victor VI... congrats.

Curt

Thanks Curt. It's wonderful to save a rare artifact that normally would have been discarded. However, even in cases like this, one has to decide the feasibility of it. Fortunately, in this case it was well worth the cost and final outcome. Thanks to Gregg Cline.

Some members may have already noted I had posted a few threads back, the up coming auction by Fontaine's and the now second known red interior mache horn. For those members that missed the previous post.....I would recommend going back a few posting and check over the pics I posted. Along with the auction information.

There is now word of a third Victor labeled, red interior mache horn. This would now make three known if confirmed.

Victor clearly offered this red interior as a form of "dash" to the already ostentatious Victor 6.

If a member happens to be the lucky winner of the auction lot.....can you please let us know.


Thank you.