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Please identify this Victrola Model #

Also does the finish appear original for this machine?

Value?

This appears to be a 4-40, but the bottom leg "stretchers" have been cut off. Still a perfectly fine machine, but kind of low to the ground. Should sound fine with a good Orthophonic reproducer.

52089 wrote:This appears to be a 4-40, but the bottom leg "stretchers" have been cut off. Still a perfectly fine machine, but kind of low to the ground. Should sound fine with a good Orthophonic reproducer.

Thanks

Too bad about the stretchers as looks so much nicer with them.

2 ½ hours drive from me Price $245.00

Herman wrote:

52089 wrote:This appears to be a 4-40, but the bottom leg "stretchers" have been cut off. Still a perfectly fine machine, but kind of low to the ground. Should sound fine with a good Orthophonic reproducer.

Thanks

Too bad about the stretchers as looks so much nicer with them.

2 ½ hours drive from me Price $245.00

I'd say that is a bit high- for that price I'd at least want a reproducer in good playing condition. Myself I'd pass on it, but in Florida you might have less to choose from

Herman wrote:Also does the finish appear original for this machine?

No. The outside of the cabinet has been refinished in a lighter than original shade.

I never understood why people felt the need to amputate the legs of furniture. I've seen just about any kind of cabinet out there from the late '20s and early '30s get this treatment.

I may be criticized for saying this, but in the condition it's in (modified cabinet, refinished too light, etc.), I wouldn't have any qualms about parting this one out if I had another of its kind to save. Regardless, $245 is way too much.

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Very informative

zenith82 wrote:I never understood why people felt the need to amputate the legs of furniture. I've seen just about any kind of cabinet out there from the late '20s and early '30s get this treatment.

I may be criticized for saying this, but in the condition it's in (modified cabinet, refinished too light, etc.), I wouldn't have any qualms about parting this one out if I had another of its kind to save. Regardless, $245 is way too much.

I disagree. I think (at a cheaper price) this would be a great "starter" machine for a new phonograph collector. A gate-way drug, of sorts. If the finish was destroyed, not just lighter, I would agree more.


-Travis

Sometimes I've seen machines attacked by the wood eater bugs just at the bottom ends of the legs, being stored on a wet floor for some time. I always think that's the reason behind the common leg amputation... FLA and other wet places (as in the North of Spain) are prone to these attacks.