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When I picked up my Victrola, I also got some spare parts that do not go with the machine. I'm not sure what they're from or what they're worth. I was hoping to get a little info and perhaps list them in the Trader section to help fund a replacement motor! Turntable is marked OkeH. Tone Arm catches in up and down positions and does not appear to be marked. Reproducer is also not marked that I can see.

I greatly appreciate any help!

The turntable says “Okeh” on it. I’m assuming the tonearm goes with it. I’ve never seen the machine that these go to, so they may be a tough sell.

That's a Heienmann tonearm and reporducer, the turntable and crank probably are too (Heinmann started the Okeh company in NY). I've seen that arm and reprocuer used on many offbrand machines, they were big suppliers to many of the "little guys" for things like this, motors, tonearms, etc. My Waddell music table has this arm and reproducer on it, they're actually very well built, the pot metal they used on this particular design seems to have held up well. You'll notice the reproducer also rotates to play vertically cut discs.

I can't say they'd be a tough sell, but they aren't particularly rare by any means.

Hope this helps a bit further,
Sean

There you go!

By "tough sell" I mostly meant that they wouldn't be worth much, maybe $20 at most if you found someone who needed them. I have a whole crate of off-brand parts, believe me I wish they were worth more.

Sounds good, thanks guys! Mainly I wanted to make sure they weren't rare or special so I could bring them to work and use them as parts for the prop victrola's we have. People tend to break things a lot and this would be a great replacement part. Of course, if anyone else here needs it, let me know. I'd rather sell it to someone who needs it for a machine then sell it to work and put it in the line of fire.

It does seem pretty well made, still pivots nicely and clicks into place pretty good.