WHY??? That's all I can say.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:11 pm
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WHY??? That's all I can say.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:52 pm
At least it was only an XI...
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:20 pm
D'you mean why would anybody do this to a machine, or why does the seller think it's worth that amount? Either way the answer's the same!
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:27 pm
Seller says it shows great craftman ship! Nice walnut too!
Who knows, it could have been done 70 years ago when it just made sense to have something more portable and it wasn't worth anything anyway. Or maybe the lower half got destroyed in a flooded basement.
Who knows, it could have been done 70 years ago when it just made sense to have something more portable and it wasn't worth anything anyway. Or maybe the lower half got destroyed in a flooded basement.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 9:21 am
What Jerry said. All we could do at this stage is speculate.
I have the bottom half of an oak Columbia F2, bought for very little, that I use as an end table. Somebody sawed off the section where the mechanism and the horn go and then moved the lid down to cover the record storage portion. Sort of like taking in an invalid relative to save from further harm. The seller said they had bought it that way years ago at an antique shop. They had no idea what it really was. The record ejecting storage system is still in the bottom.
Clay
I have the bottom half of an oak Columbia F2, bought for very little, that I use as an end table. Somebody sawed off the section where the mechanism and the horn go and then moved the lid down to cover the record storage portion. Sort of like taking in an invalid relative to save from further harm. The seller said they had bought it that way years ago at an antique shop. They had no idea what it really was. The record ejecting storage system is still in the bottom.
Clay
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:45 am
Looks more like OAK to me.
Jerry F Bacon-Dallas,Tx
Jerry F Bacon-Dallas,Tx
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:42 pm
There's something really unleasant and unnerving about that thing, like a severed head.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:37 pm
I does make me cringe. I would only buy it if it were very cheap and I needed the parts.
Clay
Clay
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:56 pm
Maybe it was in a flooded basement and the lower portion was badly water damaged ??
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:26 pm
That could well be. I've seen machines stored in damp conditions where the lower veneer has separated, split, and curled.briankeith wrote:Maybe it was in a flooded basement and the lower portion was badly water damaged ??
Clay