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Hi folks,

This is a Kijiji listing [Canada's answer to craigslist]. Its in Clark's Harbour Nova Scotia.

It is a nice looking machine and a search here only revealed one post for Sherlock Manning. Looks like they did a very nice restoration and its a handsome looking machine [BTW - I'm not interested - too big for my life/home].

I am curious about the little drawer beneath the grill ... any thoughts?

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectible ... 1392325978

Here is the text followed by a selection of pics from the ad

"Sherlock Manning grand gramophone console,made in London Ontario, made of solid ¾ inch mahogany, cabinet is in great shape, has a very large 4 spring motor that has been completely overhauled, oiled, adjusted etc. Sound reproducer has been rebuilt, has built in record storage, will include records in this sale, a beautiful old machine in perfect working order, still has the old mason jar style battery in it that would have run the light, also has the auto stop feature, it can play 8 songs on one full wind, $450, located in Clarks harbour"

That's a thing of beauty!

Just a stab at this, but my money's on it not being a drawer, but rather a pull-out shelf.

Best regards,
Fran

fran604g wrote:That's a thing of beauty!

Just a stab at this, but my money's on it not being a drawer, but rather a pull-out shelf.

Best regards,
Fran

Bet you are right! .. I may contact the seller and confirm

I saw that ad on our local sales site too. It must have been an expensive machine when new. The cabinet looks to be very well built and still in nice shape. Many of us are in the same situation, we just don't have the room for any more large cabinet machines! It would be interesting to know if the records are the same era as the machine. Could be a few treasures in there.

Pete
Nova Scotia

Another fine example of a machine built by a piano company.

Spindle design seems unusual too- for stacking records while playing?

Pete Stratford wrote:I saw that ad on our local sales site too. It must have been an expensive machine when new. The cabinet looks to be very well built and still in nice shape. Many of us are in the same situation, we just don't have the room for any more large cabinet machines! It would be interesting to know if the records are the same era as the machine. Could be a few treasures in there.

Pete
Nova Scotia

Hey Pete... that's cool ... another Nova Scotian on the forum.Counting myself that makes 3 I know of. The other is also named Pete [flashpanblue].

I know of a few others from the CAPS member list. I'm near Tatamagouche BTW.

It is lovely and he must know a bit about the hobby [especially if he did the work himself]. As you know most of the ads up here generally consist of descriptions like "works!" followed by an outrageous amount of money being asked for

Besides the size, the other thing that put me off a bit was when I searched the brand and a post it turned in was titled: Off-brand phonographs hard on 78s?

Still very pretty

Here's a little more about the company and featured model -- http://keithwright.ca/CAPP/Sherlock%20M ... nning.html
OrthoFan

OrthoFan wrote:Here's a little more about the company and featured model -- http://keithwright.ca/CAPP/Sherlock%20M ... nning.html

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OrthoFan

Good find OrthoFan!

I should have remembered to check the CAPP site myself.

gramophone-georg wrote:Spindle design seems unusual too- for stacking records while playing?

I saw something like that on a hot-air Palliard: it disengaged the turntable & left the motor runniing