In a message dated 7/17/2007 8:17:44 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, waltsommers at comcast.net writes: No prob Ray. It is just amazing how many of these crapophone auctions there are in Australia, and Germany seems to be the other big culprit. If we're discussing crapophones I thought I'd my little story. I was just in Istanbul a few weeks ago. I was wandering around the Grand Bazaar and looking for phonographs. I was first told that there were NO phonographs in the Grand Bazaar. Incidentally, the Grand Bazaar is probably as big as the Brimfield antique show and has been there for probably 500 years! Finally I found somebody who knew of someone who sold phonographs. He ran me around the Bazaar for a while and we finally found the shop. When we got there, the shop was closed! But somehow the tradesman across the hall had a key! So we entered without the owner being there. It was not only a shop but was a crapophone manufacturing place! There was a pile of motors just waiting to be placed in newly manufactured boxes. Bright brass horns were ready for assembly. All kinds of junk and old no-name reproducers were everywhere. I think it was more fun than finding a real antique phonograph shop! Needless to say, there was nothing that I wanted to buy. I knew that I might have found a crapophone or two in Istanbul but I didn't know I might find a crapophone birthplace! It was actually very exciting! My little story----Art Heller ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour