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This beautiful duo showed up on our local Craigslist. It looks like a fairly rare table top Victrola with all gold plated hardware with a very nice matching record storage cabinet. Does anyone know what model the Victrola is and/or the manufacturer of the record cabinet?

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/atq/4851026006.html

Grab it NOW !!!!!


I believe this is a very early VV-XI, before it became a floor-model upright.


Rare and desireable.

Can't ID the cabinet, but someone around here will know what it is...

To my eye, it appears to be a legit Victrola XI that is easily worth the $350 being asked. I cannot tell from the pictures but the XI maybe missing its small feet. If your lucky they might be in the cabinet. The "cabinet" is a chopped "victrola" cabinet - not victor - as evidenced by the type of record dividers in the record storage area. The speaker/horn area has been adapted to be accessory storage. IMO John

Both previous posts are correct. The table top VV-XI is sitting on a cut off or lidless Victrola. The table top machine is very early and quite unusual and well worth $350. But make sure the lower portion of the table model like the feet are still there. If missing, they would be easy to replicate. The lower portion, the lidless Victrola, has little value. Jerry

Hmmm... very interesting...


Anybody have a source for the "ejector" record storage ?


Any thoughts as to what model Victrola the "cabinet" was created from ? Looks too short to be from a later XI, but the doors do not have the bottom "scallop" of a X ?


Someone put some effort into the bottom...

De Soto Frank wrote:Hmmm... very interesting...


Anybody have a source for the "ejector" record storage ?


Any thoughts as to what model Victrola the "cabinet" was created from ? Looks too short to be from a later XI, but the doors do not have the bottom "scallop" of a X ?


Someone put some effort into the bottom...

Don't recognize the ejector system. I always thought these early XIs were a handsome design, and in this case well worth the money unless there is substantial damage that doesn't show in the pictures.

Clay

Thanks to all for the answers as to what this machine is. When I saw the for sale listing it looked like a very nice combination and I knew the phonograph was not a common model. I have no interest in buying the duo but do hope that someone rescues it.

Doh !

It's on the wrong side of the country for me !!!!!!!

Get it and ship it to me!!!! I'd love to have a tabletop XI at that price (or near it). Seriously, for that price you could buy it, enjoy it for a while, and sell it later for more than you paid - which would then help finance a future purchase. Just my 2 cents, but seriously, buy it and send it to me...

Matt