Don't come across these "combos" every day....

[OrthoFan]

A little out of my league, but nice to dream about ....






From -- http://www.bargainjohn.com/f071cOakReginaphone.htm

[hillndalefan]

I've only seen two of these in the 49 years I've been collecting. One was this model in Mahogany, and the other was a table model.
The turntable, horn and tone arm are Columbia Graphophone products, the music box by Regina. The table model had an overhead horn typical of the Disc Graphophone.
Regina, when the popularity of music boxes died off, turned from making some of the nicest music boxes in the U.S.A. to making some of the worst vacuum cleaners--the Regina ElectricBroom!

[nipper]

A Beauty in fact ,

One of my wife's treasured machines .

Nipper

[phonophan79]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[Valecnik]

Oh would I love to have that in the living room but not likely to happen...

[JohnM]

Less than two years ago, I made my regular Sunday visit to a friend's rural Indiana antiques shop. "I guess I should have called you . . . ", were his words of greeting. It seems that he was called to the non-descript farmhouse just down the road a few days before to look at buying some items after the old lady who had lived there died. "They had one of those things that plays metal records . . . what are they called?" ["A music box."]. Yeah! A music box! Except this one was a record player, too. I figured it was something someone had put together so I didn't fool with it. It was in a beautiful cabinet though. Had dragon heads carved on it, kinda round. It needed refinishing, though. Looked a little rough. They were gonna throw it out, but then they called me. They wanted $300 for it. [Seeing my expression] I knew I should have called you. They called -------- and he got it. I heard he turned right around and sold it for $3000!"

Gold is still out there, friends, and it is where you find it.

[brianu]

has anyone inquired about this machine? I'm wondering how much bargain john is asking for it.

[SonnyPhono]

I enjoyed your story John. You are right in the fact that there is still gold out there.

Were these Raginas and Grafonola Deluxe phonographs more common in mahogany or oak? Seems like from the pictures I have seen that oak was more common for them at the time.

[JohnM]

From what I have seen in the past, 'Bargainjohn' is a misnomer.

Of course everyone's experience is different, but I've encountered mahogany examples probably 10-1 over oak.

[Talkophone]

Bargin John's is an Antique Shop in Lexington, Ne. And his prices are out of sight!!! The only reason why I know him is that he used to stop at an Antique shop in my Home town in Iowa.

Larry