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Not mine and I wouldn't have the space. Looks interesting though...

http://annapolis.craigslist.org/fuo/4584273741.html

That tone arm is certainly interesting. I wonder how it sounds?

Guessing that the grille cloth is not original.

Clay

Alba was the brand name of A.J.Balcombe Ltd. Their gramophones were well made using bought in components, and this machine would have been at the top end of their range.

The tonearm is a Novaphonic Mammoth which Alba could have sourced from various trade suppliers.

Alba is the only former English gramophone brand name to survive into the present time. You can still buy a new Alba CD player or TV, but you can't buy a Columbia, Decca or HMV!

It was $1200 two years ago! Its been posted for years!
Maybe it will be $150 by April 2017?

In it's native UK, the Sterling equivalent of $150 would not be too wide of the mark.