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i found this at the dutch auction site marktplaats.nl
don't you think too that this guy is nuts!!! this is a rip-o-phone

tino

Ugghhh!!! The flat black paint job is painful.

Mr Grumpy wrote:Ugghhh!!! The flat black paint job is painful.

i agree

Was that the last phonograph in Dutchland, or what? Must be painful for the collectors there.

That machine looks like it fought in World War 2 and lost! Was it from Rotterdam?

That's better than most of what is available in the UK currently. It's better than anything in the last SAS auction, certainly!

I've long held the opinion that all the great European machines are in Phonogalerie and not the rest of France. Switzerland has very little as does Italy. Germany has too many Parlophones that the Germans don't even want!

All the best UK stuff is safely preserved in Japanese collections.

You guys in the US have no idea how lucky you are. The very worst show you have ever held is over 100 times better than our best! I will be taking my camera to NVCF shortly. I will put the pictures on here afterwards under a thread title: "NVCF - worth a yearly wait? Don't be stupid!"

People who don't know phonographs sometimes get very odd notions about the value of what they have. I recall going a year or so ago to a yard sale where a guy was trying to sell some low quality no name table model that had a Victor reproducer stuck on the end of its tone arm and most of the bright work covered with crudely done with a brush black paint. The follow, who was asking some high price (I don't remember what) got rather upset with me when I tried to gently suggest that it was not a Victor machine as he had advertised and had very little value. An authentic family heirloom, he would have me know. I wished him well and backed away quietly.

Clay