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Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:25 pm**

Could this be one of those elusive Teak India HMV 102's ?????? With history ??????

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185778718295 ... R6b2l-_KYQ

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:35 pm**

I wonder why the 'id' ivorine is different to the metal one I have seen on others - I thought this would have been standard ?

Also, what is the 'serial number' ?

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:40 pm**

Also, why doesn't the id 'tag' have the letter 'W' like epigramophone's has ?

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:24 pm**

poodling around wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:35 pm I wonder why the 'id' ivorine is different to the metal one I have seen on others - I thought this would have been standard ?

Also, what is the 'serial number' ?

I don't know much about these, but I'd say the serial number is 434485

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:10 am**

JerryVan wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:24 pm
poodling around wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:35 pm I wonder why the 'id' ivorine is different to the metal one I have seen on others - I thought this would have been standard ?

Also, what is the 'serial number' ?
I don't know much about these, but I'd say the serial number is 434485

Sorry Jerry, I mean't what does the number represent ?

For example, it can't mean that this was the 434,485 th India teak HMV 102 to be produced / made can it ? Like they made nearly half a million of them in India ?

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:34 am**

Record storage tray missing. Turntable incorrectly recovered in green. Carrying handle needs replacing.
Despite these failings it will probably still make more than I paid for mine.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:56 am**

poodling around wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:10 am
JerryVan wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:24 pm
poodling around wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:35 pm I wonder why the 'id' ivorine is different to the metal one I have seen on others - I thought this would have been standard ?

Also, what is the 'serial number' ?
I don't know much about these, but I'd say the serial number is 434485
Sorry Jerry, I mean't what does the number represent ?

For example, it can't mean that this was the 434,485 th India teak HMV 102 to be produced / made can it ? Like they made nearly half a million of them in India ?

It couldn't have been that easy, could it...

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:27 am**

JerryVan wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:56 am
poodling around wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:10 am
JerryVan wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:24 pm

I don't know much about these, but I'd say the serial number is 434485
Sorry Jerry, I mean't what does the number represent ?

For example, it can't mean that this was the 434,485 th India teak HMV 102 to be produced / made can it ? Like they made nearly half a million of them in India ?
It couldn't have been that easy, could it...

haha ! That made me laugh in a good way.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:33 am**

Having checked on the internet I think it is possible perhaps that the apparent original seller (LC Saha Ltd) still exists to this day and is now a grocery shop.

I love the (huge) LC Saha trademark logo !

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:35 am**

epigramophone wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:34 am Record storage tray missing. Turntable incorrectly recovered in green. Carrying handle needs replacing.
Despite these failings it will probably still make more than I paid for mine.

This one does have a lot of potentially amazing provenance though and of course the seller is posting it - a miracle in itself !

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