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Oh, look what's on Craigslist near me! I bet it's worth a fortune. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Just PERFECT for April first!

Antique Phonograph Paramount Talking Machine - $50 (Carrick, PGH)
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Date: 2009-03-31, 9:26AM EDT

It doesn't work. Here's a link to other photos of it: http://picasaweb.google.com/Steph.779/A ... 5elieDsMw#

• Location: Carrick, PGH
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At least this one looks like a late teens machine

If that one was near me I'd give it some serious thought- it looks better made than the average off brand machine. Appears to have a large well finished horn and the storage compartment looks interesting (if you can ignore the junk crammed into it.) I like the curious cat in the picture.

Nice machine...looking at the make I see this is a Paramount....... Can it possibly be "THE" prototype we used to hear so much about on another board? LOL!

RJ

richardh wrote:Nice machine...looking at the make I see this is a Paramount....... Can it possibly be "THE" prototype we used to hear so much about on another board? LOL!

RJ

If Only!

Strange thing is, the machine seems to be of higher quality than the usual Paramount recording. Seems similar to Starr / Gennett- fine machines, fairly lousy discs.

A very nice well built phonograph, even has gold plated parts. Actually the first Paramount I have laid eyes on, outside of that errr, well I won't go into that.

estott wrote:If that one was near me I'd give it some serious thought- it looks better made than the average off brand machine. Appears to have a large well finished horn and the storage compartment looks interesting (if you can ignore the junk crammed into it.) I like the curious cat in the picture.

AND ignore that garish red plastic replacement knob. Maybe this is what is drawing the feline attention! (Please, no discussions about pet colorblindness). I inquired about it just now, but since it's been up for three days, I'm probably too late as usual. I'll edit this post and let you know when I hear back, in any case. Good to see that the seller is aware that additional pictures are almost essential for a quick Craigslist sale.

EDIT: Nope, too late, as I suspected. Oh, well.