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What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:11 am
by poodling around
I couldn't work out what the iron contraption is ? It looks adjustable and kind of interesting ..........
Also, is that a Meltrope iv sound-box ?
Anyway:
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 0b4520506d
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:24 am
by Steve
No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:29 am
by CarlosV
Steve wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:24 am
No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!
... or a medieval torture instrument.
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:49 am
by poodling around
Steve wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:24 am
No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!
Ha ha !
Yes, it does look a bit like a two person molar extractor !
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:54 am
by poodling around
CarlosV wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:29 am
Steve wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:24 am
No, not a Meltrope anything and that contraption doesn't look like anything relating to gramophones to me, but more like a Victorian dental apparatus!
... or a medieval torture instrument.
........ or a gramophone needle holder for the biggest sound-box in the whole universe !
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:56 am
by IainW
Looks a bit like a molding plane to me.
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:06 pm
by poodling around
IainW wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:56 am
Looks a bit like a molding plane to me.
Interesting, auction houses often include non-gramophone related items so you could be right.
I don't know much about moulding planes but if this is one then it looks very well constructed.
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:14 pm
by clevelander
It's a grooving/moulding plain, probably Stanley.
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 5:02 pm
by poodling around
clevelander wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:14 pm
It's a grooving/moulding plain, probably Stanley.
Aha ! Thanks clevelander.
I don't know which ones, but I understand that some stanley products are very collectable - so maybe this one is .............
Re: What is this ?
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 5:31 pm
by Steve
Try explaining that to your wife! "Darling, you know I was after a moulding plane? Well, I found one on Ebay, only it came with some very tatty cheap portable gramophone, allegedly made by Decca, although I don't believe it as their stuff was usually of a high standard!"
"Barney, you haven't started collecting gramophones, have you?"
"Er, no, dearest, if I did I'd go straight for an EMG, not some cheap Decca knock-off, rest assured".