[Phono-L] Am I missing something here

Rich rich-mail at octoxol.com
Thu Nov 30 17:27:33 PST 2006


Good info, thanks Steve.  I would think that the 350 to 450 range for the good condition and  
NOS status.  I will trust that the seller knows how to verify the NOS status.  The rest looks 
like a couple of guys who were bound and determined to have it.  There will be more.  Buyers 
that lack patience pay a high premium on ebay.

Rich


On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:56:19 -0500, Steven Medved wrote:

>Hi Rich, As always any corrections or suggestions are welcome.  I would have guessed $400 
on this one because it is a square weight NOS, but this may be meaningless to most people. I 
have seen a common model C sell for $200 and a model C weight sell for over $79, but I have 
never seen a reproducer oversell by this much.  I track Edison reproducer sales on eBay and 
this is my opinion, even if I knew it was the only NOS square weight I would still have the 
same opinion. Some reproducers are harder to find like the gold and antique finish Dance and 
the square weight Edisonic and this is the first square weight NOS Edisonic I have seen.  I 
agree that the nickel Edisonic is not as common, most of the ones I have seen are gold or 
antique. This is serial number F-75662-NS which means that Edison converted it over from a 
regular reproducer to an Edisonic.  For $6.75 plus your old reproducer Edison would give you 
an Edisonic, saving you $12.75 off of the $19.50 cost of the Edisonic.  Edison then took the old 
reproducer and installed a larger limit loop, the thicker diaphragm and the new heavy weight. 
Since this one has a high serial number I would guess that Edison converted it from unsold 
stock.  The early square weight Edisonic is harder to find than the Dance in my experience.  
One of the antique finish Edisonic reproducers I have is F 80885 NS while my antique finish 
square weight is F 79001 NS.  I do not know if all the square weights were converted ones, but 
they are harder to find. I read that when Edison went out of business in 1929 a San Francisco 
dealer threw his entire stock into the bay, except for some NOS Edisonic reproducers that 
were rescued and sold for years.  Rare items such as NOS keep going up in value and does 
anyone else knows of an NOS square weight nickel Edisonic?  I know of about 5 round weight 
NOS ones.  When it got to $700 I was not too surprised as NOS things are becoming harder and 
harder to find, but after that the bidding seemed to be a war.  I think the war crowed out other 
bidders as my bid of $125 was not expected to take it.  I am happy for the seller and he did do 
an excellent ad.  Perhaps now would be a good time to put a NOS Edisonic on eBay since there 
appears to be a person who wants one very badly.  I wonder if the buyer knows the differences 
in Edison reproducers.  Below I have included some interesting info:
>Edison reproducers have letters before the serial numbers:
>LG  is long playEM is one with Duncan stopLD is the Danceno letters & A to F Regular DD 
reproducerEdison started out with just numbers and when he got so high (999999) he started 
over with an A and worked his way up. 
>NS before the serial number EdisonicNS after the serial number Converted Edisonic
> 
>I have never seen such a bad case of "gotta-have-its", but you got that right.  I enjoy your 
posts and thanks.






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