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Canadian Ortho, eh ?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VICTROLA-CABINE ... SS:US:3160

Buyer's premium: 23% applied to the winning bid

Fun fact: The record compartment was actually designed to hold 24 beer on their side and
two packages of Maple Leaf back-bacon.

This tidbit of info seems to have been left out of a lot of the historic documentation.

And is that a Tetrazzini record chopping up potatoes for one of her famous dishes?

Thankfully, it's a Michael Nesmith record.

Mr Grumpy wrote:

Thankfully, it's a Michael Nesmith record.

Posted elsewhere.

It went for $300 plus a buyer's premium of something like 23% on eBay and sales tax of nearly 10%.

23% buyer's premium? Why not 42%? Or 86%? Heck, an even 100% if that's what it takes. These auction bidders have got to be stopped somehow, or they'll just keep bidding until everything is gone!

For people poking around in the forum backfiles a thousand years from now:

Looks like it was refinished as well.

They turn up here locally a few times a year.
I can buy me a lot of back-bacon and beer at those prices!

Wondering about the finish myself, I was. It seems awfully light, but as a 'mercan, I'm not used to seeing this model at all. Looks like...Canadian maple! The records shelves are dark, as we normally see. The usual dead giveaway for a refinished machine, a dark spot under the lid decal, isn't there, but then the decal itself is just a little bit off-register and could maybe be a reproduction. But does anybody make reproductions of the Canadian decals? In any case, a good-looking machine, and if refinished, a very decent job of it -- if the original finish was meant to be that light, eh? The flame veneer on this one seems especially pretty.