Wow, it seems live auction is the way to sell machines, as nothing sold at the CAPS show but my cheapest offerings. I had a nice Vic III, 2 Vic II humpbacks which I still have, a COlumbia BF which I still have, a Columbia Elite (1st inside horn grafonola with early Disc Graphophone decal), and the prize, a Thomas Home Phonograph radio-cassette player that looks like an Edison Home!! My complete Edison 2 minute recorder didn't sell, nor my Edison Battery Post wrench (everyone was interested til they found out what it was!!). The only reason I got some stuff to bring home was that I traded the III, a nice record cabinet and an Amberola 30 for some other stuff. I still had a good time and it was great to see everyone, but I didn't see machines changing hands. A few people said that it had become a record show. I didn't see the variety of items I have seen in the past, not a lot of parts or horns, and when some of the big guys showed up without any outside horn disc machines, I knew something was amiss!! John wilenzick at bellsouth.net wrote: This is a report on the Labor Day weekend auction, the Preston Evans Opportunities Auction, held in Newnan, GA. It was a huge 2-day auction of almost every type of mechanical or music collectible, such as music boxes, juke boxes, crank organs, clocks, vintage toys, advertising items, arcade machines, slot machines, and even phonographs. The juke boxes, slots, and music boxes were abundant and quite spectacular, as this auction house specializes in those items. The relatively few phonograph items of interest are as follows. Prices include the 10% buyer's premium, but not sales tax. Columbia BF cylinder phono with green morning glory floral horn, average condition, $990 Oak Opera with oak horn, refinished, quite nice overall, $5,500 (good price) Mahogany Opera and horn, wood refinished rather poorly, $5,500 Edison Home in floor cabinet with glass top, rough case in and out, (not H&S I believe), $5,500 Victor IV with mahogany horn, below average condition, horn refinished, case fair, $2,310 Victor VI, highly polished brass pedal horn with repairs (didn't like horn), $3300 (good price if mahogany horn put on it) Little Wonder phono, average condition, has correct original crank, $550 Kalamazoo Duplex, average to poor condition, both original horns present, $7,700 Edison Fireside with Cygnet horn, average condition, $1,210 Mahogany round front Herzog cabinet, poorly refinished, replaced shelves and pegs, $2,200 Columbia BF with reproduction small horn, $660 Columbia AH, front mount, average original condition, nice horn, $715 Cylinder record cabinet, 4-drawer oak, beautiful serpentine shape, tiger stripe finish, original pegs, nice one, $990 Amberola 75, average condition, $550 Reginaphone, style 240, beautiful and complete, $12,925 Mae Starr phono doll, don't know if phono worked or not, $385 Effanbee talking doll, also don't know about talking mechanism, $550 Wurlitzer Model 850 jukebox, "the peacock", absolutely gorgeous original, $22,800 Wurlitzer Model 780 jukebox, very nice, $6,325 Wurlitzer Model 800 jukebox, a real beauty, $9,625 Wurlitzer Model 750 jukebox, beautiful, $7,150 The list is not complete as I missed some phono prices due to the fast pace. Also, there were some other small phonos and record cabinets, selling for a few hundred dollars that I didn't bother to record prices. And there were lots more wonderful jukeboxes, including the super rare 950, that sold after the phonographs were sold and I had left the auction house. Ray _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org