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People will buy anything on ebay. Here is a lid decal cut out and put into a wooden frame it is presently bringing over 50.00


http://www.ebay.com/itm/130663880369?ss ... 1423.l2649

If I saw that in a shop for $20, I'd probably buy it, it's kind of neat. I wouldn't say they were stupid for buying it, maybe overpaying. I just hope the machine it came from was beyond repair.

69.00 including shipping......

atleast you get a porthole shaped pictureframe early 1900s style i have 2 round tintypes that are dying to meet a frame like this, original or not its fine craftmanship

tino

"Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:--
We murder to dissect."

--- William Wordsworth, 1798

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I know, I know: Victrolas are not quite living things. Still, I hate to see anything chopped up for such a trivial result. Makes me think that converting some of the cabinets into bars, bookcases, etc. isn't half-bad after all--compared with THIS.

I buy machines and sometimes the cases are not salvageable. The lid decal in good shape is something I always save. Framed, they make a very nice and unique piece to hang on the wall. I wouldn't be too quick to assume that the person who made this "trashed" a good machine. Jim

No, didn't trash the whole phonograph. But took a saw and cut a circle out of the lid so that the lid could never serve as a phono lid again. I'm all for re-purposing, but also for NOT doing something so radical that the original contours are entirely gone.

Just my preference.

pughphonos wrote:I'm all for re-purposing, but also for NOT doing something so radical that the original contours are entirely gone.

Perhaps you would then be more interested in something like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/vtg-gramophone- ... 27d16b582b Sorry, I couldn't resist. This has been sitting on EB for a while and each time I run across it I chuckle.

I think the term is "repurposed"

Actually, phono-smitten, YEA! I'd much prefer seeing a wholly-intact phonograph lid (if a bit dinged) used as a fruit tray as opposed to having its decal hack-sawed out and placed in a circular frame. From a distance it looks like the butt end of a beer keg. White trash in the extreme to put stuff like that on one's wall.

Puh-leese, let's not have anyone sending in any photos of phonographs festooned with fuzzy dice...that's the next logical step.