Your notation on your photo page about the lamp shade brings up an interesting point: I'm not sure that these earliest electric motor machines, including the "electrola" XVI were originally equipped with lamp shades. I've seen pictures of them with the elongated, "flame shaped" lamp fully exposed with no shade at all. The metal shades seem to have become standard fare with the orthophonic vintage models. Those shades were generally spherical and were meant to be used with the globe shaped, frosted glass lamps. Anybody else know anything about this? Greg Bogantz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt" <waltsommers at comcast.net> To: "'Antique Phonograph List'" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Victor Electrola Sheraton No.500 Owners - And a Story ofDiscovery >I just bought a VE Sheraton 500 Period Victrola, Serial Number 559. I am > hoping to find another owner or others who are familiar with the Sheraton > model. I have a few questions about some cabinet hardware. > > Here is a link to some preliminary pictures of mine: > http://www.victrolaguy.com/sheraton500.htm > > If anyone has a Victor Sheraton 500 or can refer me to someone who does, I > would love to hear from you. I recall seeing one at the Victorian Mansion > last year during the Union Show, but I have to admit that it was the only > one that I had seen until I picked this one up. > > A while back there was a thread in phono-l whose subject was: "Stories of > Discoveries". In one of the replies my Uncle George (George Paul) told a > story of his hesitation to buy an Amberola 1A (I think) in Stroudsburg, PA > back in about 1973. I remember his mention of banjo music from a scene in > "Deliverance". Well, rather than hesitate, I immediately headed out in a > snow storm late last Friday night on a round trip of about 5 hours. I was > determined that even if I had to deal with a mentally-challenged banjo > picking hillbilly or his Uncle Dad, that I was going to come home with > that > Sheraton... George's 1973 close encounter with an Amberola 1A acquisition > keeps me stirred up. > > Walt > >