[Phono-L] What a Beauty !!!!

[BruceY]

That is priceless, someone should send it to the generous seller who is 
listing it, so he or she can incorporate it into the description.

Bruce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Curran" <batwings78rpm at msn.com>
To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:43 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] What a Beauty !!!!


>
> Greetings:
>
> A friend and collector writes the following re
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> http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/clt/843879502.html
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> "Wow!  One of the extremely rare glass-cased Disk Grapho-Claxtophones!  I 
> surely wish I lived close enough to pick it up; as you say, a bargain 
> price.  As I understand it, only 5 of these machines were manufactured in 
> a joint venture by Claxton and Columbia for display at the 1903 World's 
> Fair in Dubuque, Iowa (theme: "Corn: A Benefactor to Man"), where the 
> clear case was intended to display the superioriority of a motor those two 
> firms had developed over that employed by Victor in its top-end machines. 
> None were thought to have survived the trip back to the Columbia factory 
> following the exhibition, as a careless rail baggage clerk dropped the 
> shipping case in which they had been packed, but I guess one must have 
> after all.  That is a major rarity, and I'm really excited to see it. 
> Thanks for sharing!  I hope that whoever buys it knows how to restore that 
> case.  The best bet would probably be Black Windex, which combines regular 
> glass cleaner with rotten stone abrasive to
> remove the century-plus accumulation of fingerprints and grime."
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> Cheers, etc.
>
>
> Doug --
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