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Another ebay listing with crappy photos. You would think these people could provide decent pictures. Buy an inexpensive camera if your phone takes lousy photos. Good grief!

Sold for £3,200 complete with woodworm and incorrect/damaged horn.

AZ* wrote:Another ebay listing with crappy photos. You would think these people could provide decent pictures. Buy an inexpensive camera if your phone takes lousy photos. Good grief!

when has he ever put out decent photos ?

soundgen wrote:

AZ* wrote:Another ebay listing with crappy photos. You would think these people could provide decent pictures. Buy an inexpensive camera if your phone takes lousy photos. Good grief!

when has he ever put out decent photos ?

......or helpful descriptions?

I should like to say that I have known this vendor, Dave Smith, for nearly forty years. He formerly had a shop near where I lived in north-west London*. I bought my first Berliner discs from him, as well as three Edison model R reproducers (the first in the 1980s, the others quite recently), an Edison Standard combination attachment which he allowed me to remove from a derelict machine, and, much later, a Columbia Q in working order for £220 (which was not expensive by British standards). I agree that his images and descriptions call for a fair amount of faith and knowledge on the buyer's part – he is an old-fashioned trader who has made the transition to the world of online selling without changing his methods more than was absolutely necessary – but I have never had reason to regret dealing with him.

*Next door to Hendon Central Underground (subway) station, if any of my fellow Britons knows that area.

Oliver Mundy.