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Seems like my cat wanted to be part of the collection.

Thats a stocky little puss....
I think the cat needs to work on it's pose.. Do cats do commands? Sorry I have never had a cat... sneeze sneeze
Name? sex? (of the cat)

Cute for sure...

Catnip-per?

Catnip--per........That's good Brandon!!
As a reformed, former cat owner I can answer the question-- Cats don't take commands, they give them.
I'll take my dog any day!

Brad Abell

I have three machines that serve me as "display only": a Columbia AH and Victor Monarch Jr., which (particularly the AH) are just too hard on records to be comfortable, and a Pathé Model 0, which simply did not turn out to be a practical machine. (Spent too much for the last one and would never recover it; probably should start a thread "What were your biggest machine mistakes?")

Anyhow, they all sit on a long, high shelf over a big bank of record shelves. I assigned each an animal "mascot" for the display. The choices for the Victor and Pathé machines were obvious, but what for the Columbia? After a bit of thought, I came up with an answer. Looking across the shelf from left to right....