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Why would anyone taking the trouble to do a major restoration go so wrong on the decal?

http://cgi.ebay.com/COLUMBIA-GRAPHOPHON ... 286.c0.m14

and what could "background static" mean?

Jeff

That crank appears to be from a disc machine as well.

I think we have uncovered the machine that was created to play Sonny's rarest record ever made!

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... f=2&t=2835

He has done a nice job of refinishing the case. I really like the color! My guess is that he is not a Phonograph collector, hence the error on choice of decal. He may have just focused in on the word "Graphophone" and not paid much attention to the word "Disc".
Pete

I didn't even look at it so closely when I saw it yesterday. But that's really funny, wrap 'em round the mandrel!