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Can you guess what these four items are sitting in my dining room? Hint: The big wood thing is an Edison Diamond Disc console.

Sugar Bowl, Creamer, & Toaster?

Yes,,,,, but more details please

Is the toaster Edison made?

A closer look reveals the signature.

Yep, a rare and minty shiney working Thomas A. Edison 1930 Edicraft toaster with matching Edicraft sugar & creamer set. Edicraft was one of the first items made at West Orange after phonograph production ceased. Not many were made as the great depression was just starting and the Edicraft line was high priced and targeted for the upper middle class living in the city. A toaster like mine in near perfect and working condition sold on EBay in Jan. of 2005 for more than you would pay for an Edison Triumph machine with its original horn! I would much rather have the Triumph but the toaster makes for a great (and pretty rare) conversation piece - and it actually makes perfect toast, but I try not to use it.

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briankeith wrote:Yep, a rare and minty shiney working Thomas A. Edison 1930 Edicraft toaster....

Beautiful toaster, but "minty", of course, means it tastes like toothpaste. Being in such good shape, it's condition is "near mint".

briankeith wrote:Yep, a rare and minty shiney working Thomas A. Edison 1930 Edicraft toaster with matching Edicraft sugar & creamer set. Edicraft was one of the first items made at West Orange after phonograph production ceased. Not many were made as the great depression was just starting and the Edicraft line was high priced and targeted for the upper middle class living in the city. A toaster like mine in near perfect and working condition sold on EBay in Jan. of 2005 for more than you would pay for an Edison Triumph machine with its original horn! I would much rather have the Triumph but the toaster makes for a great (and pretty rare) conversation piece - and it actually makes perfect toast, but I try not to use it.

So what did it sell for in 2005?

An insane crazy amount of money - I guess toaster collectors take their hobby very seriously, just like us talking machine collectors!

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