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Seller's Description: "NO. 4 victor Victrola...a truly beautiful piece and it's brought in lots of shoppers as a window display. Alas, I'm changing my window and passing the luck on to you! Runs fine" (No mention of the left front corner being chewed off)

All I can say is "What a beauty..." And reasonable too... at only $3,500...
https://www.ebay.com/i/362047208802?rt= ... %3DDefault

Wow......

Stunning horn...and the high end reproducer...what more can I say.
Oh dear.

"A beautiful piece".... of what?

gramophone-georg wrote:"A beautiful piece".... of what?

I knew you would ask, but unfortunately because of the virus, I'm not allowed to say... no sense upsetting any more people.

Horn looks like one of those old looney toons where the shotgot had a cork jammed in before it was shot...

Does dust count as patina?

I have no room and it's way too expensive, but it's a Victor IV and we can't just see it rusting away like this. So I made them an offer of $250.

We will see what happens. It's not a good example, and I think the seller is just weird, but even in bad shape it's a Victor IV.

I probably won't get it--which is fine, I don't have a place for it as I'm currently sleeping on the couch. (My brother has my bed as he's visiting and that got prolonged due to quarantine.) But if I can get it, it's going to find at least somewhere until it is repaired. Probably would take me a year to get it fully in one piece. Would I rather buy my junkers from you guys? Yes. Would I rather NOT buy a Vic IV right now? Of course. Can a phonograph fan sit there and watch one decay? Not a chance.

So nothing ventured nothing gained.