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Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-VI?
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:56 am
by brianu
obviously this is some sort of after market addition, if not just garbage at this point, but I'm wondering if anyone might know for sure what this is or what it may have been used for... I was thinking for a small illuminating bulb, but there is no wiring at all. it's on a standard table model victor VV-VI that I'm cleaning up.
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:39 pm
by PeterF
It's for a bud vase.
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:04 pm
by brianu
PeterF wrote:It's for a bud vase.
seriously? as in, someone was trying to decorate this victrola with some attached foliage?
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:14 pm
by PeterF
I'm totally kidding. But don't let that stop you.
Looks like some sort of crane bracket, but who knows. It could also be part of some arcane after-market gizmo, like an autostop or repeater or suspension for dancing dolls, or any number of things.
I'd just leave it on there, as a conversation piece.
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:48 pm
by estott
Possibly to hold one of those aftermarket pickups that played through a radio
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 3:00 pm
by Curt A
A flag holder to go with your red, white & blue swirled Vocalion record...
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:30 pm
by NEFaurora
I vote crappy homemade crane bracket...
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Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:51 pm
by brianu
NEFaurora wrote:I vote crappy homemade crane bracket...
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Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer
but a crane for what though? this is a standard internal horn VV-VI and there's otherwise no modification to the reproducer or tonearm that would allow for the use of an external horn supported by a crane.
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:09 pm
by phonogal
Maybe a place to store the crank when you are taking the machine somewhere or storing it?
Re: Is this trash or an unusual attachment found on this VV-
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:11 pm
by Mr Grumpy
brianu wrote:NEFaurora wrote:I vote crappy homemade crane bracket...
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Tony K.
Edison Collector/Restorer
but a crane for what though? this is a standard internal horn VV-VI and there's otherwise no modification to the reproducer or tonearm that would allow for the use of an external horn supported by a crane.
Maybe there was an Edison external horn machine on the shelf next to this VV-VI?