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Please contact me with any questions or for further details.

Below are photos of the machines, including various examples of coloured cased "Deluxe" variants of HMV, Columbia and the other usual suspects, 37 in total alongside some spare motors, turntables and winding handles.

There are too many to list specific details and I have also listed these for a friend who is not a gramophone expert but who would like to sell this collection ASAP and ideally as a job lot! Due to geographic location unfortunately I cannot just "pop round" to inspect a particular machine either.

However, I have viewed these machines just under 12 months ago and can say that they are about as good as they can ever be cosmetically and functionally. That does not mean they are pristine as many show marks, scratches, small dents and tiny repairs commensurate with age and use. However they have all been restored to make them as good as possible so there is little left to do. In other words, where metal fittings were rust spotted, they have been re-plated. Where rexine had lifted, it has been re-glued etc. All have had motors stripped and regreased and soundboxes tweaked/ rebuilt aa necessary to play as well as possible.

Steve

This post is quite useless without location information, isn’t it?

And if the owner “is not a gramophone expert” who did the repairs?

PeterF wrote: Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:00 am This post is quite useless without location information, isn’t it?

And if the owner “is not a gramophone expert” who did the repairs?

Instead of squandering your equally worthless vitriol on a post, you might have just simply messaged me with any questions!

For those interested, the machines are in the East of England and whilst the current owner is not a gramophone expert, his late partner was, as well as being a long-time serving member here before he sadly passed away last year.

PeterF, well done, you've just made my "Ignore List"!

Beautiful machines. Steve.

Jureinakamura1945 wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 7:24 pm Beautiful machines. Steve.

Yes, they are, but they have to be sold very soon otherwise I'll probably end up with the entire collection myself which I do not need or have space for!

Nice machines... how much is the entire collection ? Or better send you a PM ?

Calle wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 8:09 am Nice machines... how much is the entire collection ? Or better send you a PM ?

Please PM me. Thank you!

No one? Maybe the materials can be recycled as they surely can't go to landfill!

Please post the asking price for the lot just to see if it's worth pursuing...

Curt A wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 6:38 am Please post the asking price for the lot just to see if it's worth pursuing...

£1800 would get the lot of machines plus £150 for all the parts. I dare say £1800 could get everything if the owner doesn't shoot me first!