How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:29 pm
I leave her very little space - so she says anyway 
Brian,
You've got a great decorator's eye!
I love the old telephone too!!!
Gene
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Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:40 pm
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 11:09 pm
A very nice A-100. Only thing I didn't like about mine was the lack of an above-bedplate speed control. Still, a pretty neat machine.
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:50 pm
Very nice..... I am glad to see a collection that is well displayed. Hope to see you at the Wayne Show. Stephen
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:48 pm
She is probably smiling on the inside, your collection looks great! 
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:29 am
Very nicely done displays, and some nifty stuff.
Probably a good thing I am an old bachelor as I have stuff just everywhere and now trying to figure out where in the world I am going to put a Columbia AH project when it is all done.
Clay
Probably a good thing I am an old bachelor as I have stuff just everywhere and now trying to figure out where in the world I am going to put a Columbia AH project when it is all done.
Clay
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:41 am
well my bedrooms got a bit of space...FloridaClay wrote: now trying to figure out where in the world I am going to put a Columbia AH project when it is all done.
Clay
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:44 am
Very nice ecclection, nicely displayed... this goes a long way towards "spousal tolerance of hobbies"...
I really like that A-K cathedral...
I really like that A-K cathedral...
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:48 pm
The other Cathedral radio sitting next to the DC powered Atwater-Kent is an Edison - Not an Edison-Bell but an Edison. (embossed on the brass metal escutchion plate around the tuning dial) Most likely some company stole his name to put on the radio and then was forced to remove it by a lawsuit, etc. It was built in NYC. I've never seen another one like it. It hums and maybe one day I'll have it electronicly restored back to playing condition like the AK. The large Grenet battery was found in a very old sealed wooden box with three other well packed in cotton Grenets of the exact same size two years ago in Roselle Park New Jersey. The beautiful blue glass horn on the Gem is one of Stephen's great masterpieces. There are no better! The Edison Mimeograph was found in Paterson New Jersey along with four bottles of unsed AB Dick ink. The phone was used by my great-grandmother until her death in 1969. (The original oak ringer box sits on the floor below the Edison A-100) That glass cabinet houses my fathers old Brownie camera collection - over 50 working bakelite Brownie cameras are stuffed inside that old oak cabinet! And next to the Edison Mimeograph is my fairly rare & working Edison Home Projecting Kintoscope with it's original brass lens. PS: I am considering selling the Kintoscope some day since I don't really have a decent light source or any playable (and very dangerous by the way) Edison film reels. I have one Edison film that smells from here to high noon - ready to burst into flames so I keep it inside its original Edison film can. (safety first)
Re: How does the wife put up with me?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:12 pm
Very nice displays!
In addition to the Brownies I think I also see a Diana. I still have the one I received for my birthday when I was a kid.
In addition to the Brownies I think I also see a Diana. I still have the one I received for my birthday when I was a kid.