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Latest addition to the family a Edison Standard 4 latch ... This one took a while. I still have two more in the cooker to be finished later Tom B

I really dig these early "latch" "square" Standards and Homes because of the early- early geekdom. Thanks for sharing this.

Have you noticed that the Edison signature and bedplate stencils on these earlies is slightly different than the new style 1901- on machines? I got a set of supposedly correct decals for my 2 clip but they are just subtly different than the originals. I think I am going to freehand over the originals rather than use the decals because I just won't be able to stand it if I know I used something slightly different even if nobody else ever notices, LOL.

Interesting mount for the crane, BTW. Never saw that style before.

I got a Edison stencil from Greg for my home suitcase and it seemed to match. I did not compare the ones to the standards which may be different. I will dig a couple out and compare them. It is an interesting point. I wonder if the two latch are different than the four latch ??? Tom B

gramophone-georg wrote:Have you noticed that the Edison signature and bedplate stencils on these earlies is slightly different than the new style 1901- on machines?

I really haven't noticed much of a difference in the signature. However the corner decorations on the earliest machines look to have been made with something like a flat-nibbed pen rather than the thinner brush strokes on the later machines. They were all hand made, so I expect it's rather difficult for the reproduction decals to look exactly like the real thing considering all the possible variation.

Martin

Very interesting crane support. Thanks for posting.