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I am in need of a Amberola 30 oak lid - just picked up a clean working Amberola 30 which has no lid - go figure. Owner lost the lid 30 years ago. How can one loose a lid? Anyway, he sold it to me for parts but it works & sounds great, the case and grilles are in excellent condition, it just has no lid Anyone have a decent lid maybe from a parts machine? Brian

If nothing pops up here Brain, try George Vollema at Great Lakes Antique Phonograph. He has a big stock of parts machines.

http://www.victroladoctor.com/

Clay

Please see the Yankee Trader posting guidelines. I have updated the title of this post for you to reflect the new format.

Amberola 30 lids are notorious for having their top plywood fall off or become delaminated. That's likely what happened with yours - the owner didn't want to look at an imperfect lid and tossed it. I recently got an early 30 with exposed speed control, and it's the first 30 I've seen "in the wild" in a long time that didn't need new veneer on the lid.

I suppose it's also possible that yours was once in the Babson(?) cabinet that was designed to turn a 30 (sans lid) into an upright with record storage, but that seems unlikely.