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Last week we pick up a Columbia Regent from Mason, MI. While we were there, the seller mentioned that his late Uncle had some other parts they wanted to sell. We are now the proud owners of over 100 phonograph horns, a Victrola XII and an early Amberola VI (both needing major restoration).We did the 750 mile round trip today. I will post better pictures once they are unloaded and spread out.
Mike

If you find a paneled horn for a Victor III, I might wish to trade or something! Perfectly fine if it's a refinish project.

Amazing "horny" haul. Is the wood one spoken for?
Ken

VanEpsFan1914 wrote:If you find a paneled horn for a Victor III, I might wish to trade or something! Perfectly fine if it's a refinish project.

As I unload and sort them out, I will see what I have and let you know.
Mike

colmike1 wrote:

VanEpsFan1914 wrote:If you find a paneled horn for a Victor III, I might wish to trade or something! Perfectly fine if it's a refinish project.

As I unload and sort them out, I will see what I have and let you know.
Mike

Thanks. I'm kind of thinking about moving away from brass to something that doesn't tarnish or show dents quite so badly

Phono-Phan wrote:Amazing "horny" haul. Is the wood one spoken for?
Ken

I will say, the Victor spear horn is in very poor condition. As soon as everything is unloaded, I will send you detailed pictures.
Mike

if you have a nice flower horn for a vic 2 i might want it. Thanks

Gee fellas, give the guy a chance to think and sort through them lol.

That's a whole lot of horns!
I can't imagine hording so many horns and having them stacked up and silent for goodness knows how long.

Even if you kept a couple Victor's, Columbia disc and cylinder horns, the best Edison of every size, and a few of the best and most unusual ones, that would still leave an awful lot of horns with the potential to complete other machines.
It really is a great haul.
Congratulations.

I know you are sorting through them so no rush.


But I have been looking for some rusty horns to make paper horns out of. Do you have the big searchlight horn? I can see one in the pictures but I can't tell if it is the big one?

Also I see a cygnet horn there...... I don't have one for my edison home!

Let me know!

I guess while everyone's posting their requests, I'll through one out there too.

If you come across any decorated horns with original paint, even in really poor condition, it's be great to see photos of them.

Often if they look daggy on a machine, people spruce them up with a fresh coat of paint, so it can be hard finding an accurate reference to exactly what colours were used, the type of decoration or the amount of shading etc that was originally on them.

I think it'd be a great reference for anyone wanting to do a more accurate restoration to their own horns that either have no paint left on them or have been repainted several times.

It just a thought anyway

I got a little excited seeing what appeared to be a white gem horn with a decal in your second photo, but zooming in it looks like it might have originally been a red gem horn that somebody painted white and painted around the decal.