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Check out my new purchase. Does anyone make replacement gold letters for the record boxes? I am missing a few.

I recently got a Victor l-door (hoping to get some pics on the forum soon) and want to find some albums/boxes to stuff the cabinet with but don't know which would be correct for the model? Mine is a mahogany type C.
-Tom

Tom, Mine is a model B. I'm not sure what type came in a model C.
Bob

Bob wrote:Check out my new purchase. Does anyone make replacement gold letters for the record boxes? I am missing a few.

Wow! That is a stunning machine, much more so than my mahogany one. And you have all the correct record boxes. I'm envious.

Congratulations!
Andreas

Bob,
Your machine is stunning. Very nice. Those record boxes are HARD to come by. I looked for over a year before I found mine and they are not a complete matching set, just a complete set. I too am looking for letters. I was told that a scrap booking store would have the gold stick on letters in a similar font and size. I have yet to go to the scrap booking store at the local mall, but I intend to do so soon. Maybe one near you would be of some help. I plan to take one of my albums with me when I go to match the size and font.
Good Luck,
Matt

Tpapp54321 wrote:I recently got a Victor l-door (hoping to get some pics on the forum soon) and want to find some albums/boxes to stuff the cabinet with but don't know which would be correct for the model? Mine is a mahogany type C.
-Tom

I have the same machine as yours and its boxes are exactly the same as those Bob posted above if that helps.

Tpapp54321,
I could be wrong, but I think the C uses the record books with 15, 16, or 17 pages per book. I think the 15 page books are the right ones, but the 16 page books fit snugly in the storage slots. Orthosean will know the correct answer, I think. He also had some of the books for sale at one time. I restored a C earlier this year for a neighbor and I am pretty sure the books go with that machine.
Good luck,
Matt

mattrx wrote:Bob,
Your machine is stunning. Very nice. Those record boxes are HARD to come by. I looked for over a year before I found mine and they are not a complete matching set, just a complete set. I too am looking for letters. I was told that a scrap booking store would have the gold stick on letters in a similar font and size. I have yet to go to the scrap booking store at the local mall, but I intend to do so soon. Maybe one near you would be of some help. I plan to take one of my albums with me when I go to match the size and font.
Good Luck,
Matt

Thanks,I always wanted an oak L door and finally found a nice one with the boxes. Picked it up pre arranged at the Wayne show. Good idea on the scrap book store. I will check them out.
Bob

Tpapp54321 wrote:I recently got a Victor l-door (hoping to get some pics on the forum soon) and want to find some albums/boxes to stuff the cabinet with but don't know which would be correct for the model? Mine is a mahogany type C.
-Tom

The "box" type albums are known as the VTLA albums, I believe.

I have a mahogany L-door from 1909, no frieze below the lid, and the suffix on the serial plate is "C" re-struck over "B".

I think 1909 and the C-series as probably a transitional model as far as change-over from the VTLA box-folders and the later "open" album. VTM probably used-up the stock of box folders on-hand.

Here is the tag on mine. Is the model B just after the VTLA?