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http://denver.craigslist.org/atq/1428313260.html

...especially if my suspicions are correct about the sound box. (Notice the telltale split in the sound box casing right above the black colored needle bar pivot housing --

If it's what I think it is, it's well worth the price.

Wow, never seen the acoustic and electric tonearm for sale "in the wild" like that... and for so cheap.

...is it a Borgia II / 9-2?

http://www.victor-victrola.com/Borgia%20II.htm

I'm starting to take all these Craigslist postings personally! All this good, no . . . GREAT stuff -- for practically nothing -- and I'm on the road and can't do anything about it! Curse you, Red Baron!!!

On the road! I never get to go on the road and when I do great stuff shows up -like the Victor Credenza I keep trying to get-right here in my back yard-3 miles away-$275.00 and I go on my first vacation in 3 years and it is gone a DAY!!!!! before I get back-Sob there is no fairness in phono-land....

Abe

need4art wrote:On the road! I never get to go on the road and when I do great stuff shows up -like the Victor Credenza I keep trying to get-right here in my back yard-3 miles away-$275.00 and I go on my first vacation in 3 years and it is gone a DAY!!!!! before I get back-Sob there is no fairness in phono-land....

Abe

. . . mighty Abe has struck out! (With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer)

Someone just grabbed it.. I hope to fix it up. The top looked pretty rough in the pics I got so I hesitated enough to lose out. Also, the 16 hour drive, one way, was a little bit of a discouragement. Ah well, on to the next conquest.

Steve

Ortho, that's exactly what you think it is. The Craigslist posting is gone so I didn't get to see it. What was it and how much did it go for?

Jim

This listing was for a Victor Borgia II. Cost was $150, however it needs a *tremendous* amount of work. Currently determining restoration feasibility.