Can you spot the incorrect part on this VV-IV ?

[1923VictorFan]

I came across this handsome Victor Victrola IV but something about it strikes me as not looking quite right. Can you find it?

[briankeith]

The floor model style long crank?

[phonogfp]

It all looks perfect to me!

George P.

[Jerry B.]

It's all correct. That's an optional crank, available by special order, so you can wind it from the next room. Jerry

[FloridaClay]

Clay

[Henry]

That's an easy one: it's the very rare vertical-play model; it's cranked from below. Or from above, when mounted in the cellar.

[briankeith]

I think the table cloth is not period to the piece. And that table, yuck!

[Brad]

Actually, that is a very rare piece. That is the right channel of the first stereo record player. The Left channel can be any standard VV-IV and sits to the left. The crank extends through the right channel unit and threads into the left channel unit normally. The right channel crank fits through a spring not unlike the Victrolita discussed in another thread.

The real value is when you have the original matching left channel unit, which would bear a serial number of one less than this one. Difficult to find, but I don't many would find that a deal breaker.

[Henry]

Actually, that is a very rare piece. That is the right channel of the first stereo record player. The Left channel can be any standard VV-IV and sits to the left. The crank extends through the right channel unit and threads into the left channel unit normally. The right channel crank fits through a spring not unlike the Victrolita discussed in another thread.

The real value is when you have the original matching left channel unit, which would bear a serial number of one less than this one. Difficult to find, but I don't many would find that a deal breaker.

And they rotate in opposite directions, which makes things even more interesting.

[Covah]

It's missing the Edison record.