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Edisone wrote:I feel the same about needless phono parting-out as I do about chopping-up old magazines to sell the ads: horrified. But at least there's a good reason to buy phono parts, unlike buying a sliced-out magazine page for $10++ when the seller probably paid $1 for the whole thing.

Absolutely! I've seen unusual ads on eBay that were interesting or historically significant, and I would have paid the inflated price if only scissors-hands had been able to tell me the month and year of publication. Now it's only a pretty picture - - without a date, the historical value has been seriously diminished.

George P.

I don't find the magazine cutting as bad for earlier magazines where the ads are confined to sections in the front and the back- the text isn't sacrificed and (in theory) someone might be reading that old edition of National Geographic. I also don't mind it so much when the magazines are damaged- I've salvaged quite a few ads from a pile of water damaged 1900's magazines like Pearson's and Everybody's.

So I glued my Triumph back together. It was actually not so terrible. It just took a long time. The machine is more or less back together. I won't be keeping it for long however, need to make room for new things. Glad it survived.

As I have mentioned elsewhere on this board, I've been researching a partial Zonophone that I've had for the past 35 years. It consists of the oak case, the motorboard with motor, the turntable, and the lower horn support. I'm contemplating selling it on ebay and, since it isn't a complete machine, selling it by parting it out. I recently saw a very similar item go on ebay as one unit for $565.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0580239443

I wonder what it would have brought if it had been parted.

The case on mine is in excellent condition, and the motor works fine.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

I just can't help myself but this guys user name should be WHOREMAN instead of horseman... LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/UPPER-BED-PLATE-EDI ... 20b82f6379

Broken down into 11 listings....

Unbelievable..

At least he didn't sell the screws for the reproducer clip's separate..
He must have missed that.

blizz

fmblizz wrote:I just can't help myself but this guys user name should be WHOREMAN instead of horseman... LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/UPPER-BED-PLATE-EDI ... 20b82f6379

Broken down into 11 listings....

Unbelievable..

At least he didn't sell the screws for the reproducer clip's separate..
He must have missed that.

blizz

Geeze......He took a decent, restorable, early machine and is basically selling it piecemeal. I'll be curious to see if in the end, the totals add up to the value of a whole machine in the current condition it's in.

Bill

I was bidding on (and lost) a couple of the items from the horseman's Edison Suitcase Home. It ended tonight and I tallied up his take: $848.00. It is unfortunate that he couldn't have made that much by selling the complete machine. I can understand the temptation, especially if it's a less than perfect machine to begin with. BTW: now he is selling a Home A that he did the same thing with.

Jim