The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

The weather was cold and it threatened rain all morning. It finally started to sprinkle about 1:30 and business was a bit slow, so everyone packed up quickly and it was over. The prices when given are as close as I can recall.

Here's a few photos:

One of two Kalamazoo Duplexes. The other had better decals and was more restored ($5500). This one was $3000.
Blue export (Australia) Fireside horn
Hawthorne & Sheble cabinet for front mount disc machine. Top lifts up to reveal machine which can be raised or lowered into the cabinet on adjustable platform. Horn supported by crane from cast bracket on front of cabinet above tilt-out record bins. $4500
Lever-wind Berliner
Patent model for Soucy horn with tuned sympathetic strings strung on inside panels of horn, found in the attic of the inventor's home in Maine. $2500
Soucy horn exterior
Pooley 'flat-top' VTLA $5000
VV-XVIII $2200
My old VV 8-7 (that I sold 15 years ago in California!) $2200
Glass-sided Zonophone $6500
Lots of other stuff! Can't wait until tomorrow!

John M

JohnM wrote:Pooley 'flat-top' VTLA $5000

2009-06-11 VTLA.jpg

John M

I do lust after the Pooley flat tops.....one of these days I'll get one....one of these days.

Zeppy wrote:

JohnM wrote:Pooley 'flat-top' VTLA $5000

2009-06-11 VTLA.jpg

John M

I do lust after the Pooley flat tops.....one of these days I'll get one....one of these days.

Get in line, brother! The only time I've ever had a chance to buy one 'in the wild' was in 1969 and I was 12 years old. I found one in a used furniture store in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, NY. I knew what it was, because I had just read an article by Jim Walsh in 'Hobbies' magazine, and he talked about them briefly, but at that tender age I didn't appreciate how elusive they are . . . and besides, $15 was absolutely outrageous for a Victrola in 1969! Why, I could buy them all day long for less than $5 each when I wasn't picking them out of the garbage or people weren't giving me the worthless things! Hindsight 20/20. I hope I own one sometime (soon, please) before I part from this veil of tears!

JohnM wrote:

Zeppy wrote:

JohnM wrote:Pooley 'flat-top' VTLA $5000

2009-06-11 VTLA.jpg

John M

I do lust after the Pooley flat tops.....one of these days I'll get one....one of these days.

Get in line, brother! The only time I've ever had a chance to buy one 'in the wild' was in 1969 and I was 12 years old. I found one in a used furniture store in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, NY. I knew what it was, because I had just read an article by Jim Walsh in 'Hobbies' magazine, and he talked about them briefly, but at that tender age I didn't appreciate how elusive they are . . . and besides, $15 was absolutely outrageous for a Victrola in 1969! Why, I could buy them all day long for less than $5 each when I wasn't picking them out of the garbage or people weren't giving me the worthless things! Hindsight 20/20. I hope I own one sometime (soon, please) before I part from this veil of tears!

This is the one few machines I still want (I suppose the other is the XXV). Can't say I've actually ever seen one in person. A couple on ebay is about as close as I've ever come. But you never know. The Talking Machine gods have smiled down on me more than once. Perhaps some day I'll get lucky again.

Whee!!! More pics!! That Pooley VTLA is lovely ..boxes and all...but according to the Victor Data Book, those albums are later than the machine because the the 1906-08 ones didn't have an index letter on the back. But even so I'd love that machine.
That Berliner Gramophone is peachy! I'd rather have that than a Trade Mark, ya know?
More pics!

Jim

Thanks for posting these pics!

you wouldn't have any info on that 8-7 would you? like, who's selling it and where they might be from?

thanks.

brianu wrote:you wouldn't have any info on that 8-7 would you? like, who's selling it and where they might be from?

thanks.

Brian,
PM sent.
John

i wish i could be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are in spirit!

John M