[Phono-L] Collectibles - How's That For Originality?

[Andrew Baron]

I really enjoyed this little time capsule from 1965.  Thanks for  
sharing it.

Andy Baron

On Aug 15, 2008, at 5:44 PM, ClockworkHome at aol.com wrote:

> Yes, originality is the desired goal and is getting more difficult  
> to find as
> time goes by.  I feel sorry for the newbies entering the hobby today  
> who
> strive for this.  Just this month on eBay was a "never been played  
> brown wax
> record" in a ratty Gold Molded box and an Edison Electric Phonograph  
> which is an M
> motor base with a late Model A Triumph topworks that has craftsman  
> added idler
> pulleys to the topworks but with no pulley stanchions and a serial  
> number on
> a patent plate way to high.
>
> I really do miss the golden days when I would answer an ad for a  
> phonograph
> in the newspaper.  One was for an Amberola DX which I still own.  It  
> read
> simply Edison Amberola $275 which in 1965 was rather high but I  
> called and went
> anyway.  The very old couple selling the machine had it sitting on a  
> curved front
> Hertzog matching oak record cabinet full of desirable titles of Blue
> Amberols.  I asked them what they wanted for the cabinet and they  
> said nothing since
> it went with the phonograph.  I told them the combination was worth  
> much more.
> They simply would not take more than $275.  As I was packing my new  
> treasures
> I asked what was so special about the figure $275 and they responded  
> that was
> what the vet's bill was for their cocker spaniel to get a new gold  
> tooth!
>
> Regards to All and may all your finds be rare ones...
>
> Al
>
>
>
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