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Modernola on eBay
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:51 am
by cleveland1996
Anyone interested in a Modernola? Has been refinished but looks to pretty nice.. Probably needs a reproducer rebuild.. Located in Kansas with pickup preferred...Not mine, just passing along
eBay 111787624264
Joe
Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:09 pm
by audiophile102
I was blown away by this magnificent and odd phonograph. I wish I could buy it. Thanks for posting. Here are the pictures from ebay.
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Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:30 am
by FloridaClay
An interesting piece, and the price strikes me as being fairly reasonable. Off in Kansas, though.
Clay
Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:40 pm
by ambrola
It has been re-finished and not a good job at all.
Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:55 pm
by estott
Relisted- starting bid of $750, with a reserve. In the previous auction the seller wanted well over a grand for it. A nice machine even with the lousy refinish, but you could buy far better machines for that kind of money:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Moder ... 1006592896?
Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:58 am
by Hailey
For what it is worth...the shade is not even close to the original one.
Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:20 am
by estott
Hailey wrote:For what it is worth...the shade is not even close to the original one.
I've seen pictures of them with a variety of shades, and if this one isn't a period shade it is a good recreation of one. I'm pretty sure the upright turning of the lamp is new though- and it is too complicated a turning. It seems a lot of these lost the lamp entirely over the years.
Re: Modernola on eBay
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:46 am
by FloridaClay
The shade is different from the one more elaborate one shown in this advertisement, although its design seems consistent with shades of the period. Finial looks incorrect. A period ad seen in a June 2014 APS article dealing with "off brand" machines states that "Shades provided in many effects," which I take to mean in many different styles. That being the case, the shade on this one could well be original, as the seller states.
http://www.antiquephono.org/brand-talki ... j-wakeman/
The refinish is much too light, but a refinish with a proper stain could remedy that. And you'd have to wonder if it originally might have had the painted decoration that was on some models. See, for example, pages 64-65 of George & Timothy's
Phonographs with Flair: A Century of Style in Sound Reproduction.
It's been relisted and is currently up to $750, but reserve not met.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Moder ... 006592896?
Does anybody have a feel for what correct examples have been bringing at the shows?
Clay