I agree with you Greg Farmer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Farmers" <g...@usfamily.net>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
What is the purpose of continuing to beat this seller's description?
While we agree that it is highly unlikely the paint was applied at the
factory, the paint is good enough that a seller without vast phonograph
experience could easily think it looks as old as the machine, and
therefore as far as he knows was applied at the factory. It looks like
this seller sells lots of purses and boots, and is probably much more
knowledgeable about those items than the average phonograph expert. If I
had a purse to sell on eBay I could easily make wrong assumptions about it
that the purse experts would laugh at too.
And, whether painted at the factory or not, it looks very nice. If I owned
it, I'd keep it and display it alongside my factory-correct Gems.
-- Greg Farmer
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From: <bruce78...@comcast.net>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
"He said that as far as he knows the paint was applied at the factor",
And where pray tell did he derive that knowledge from ? Me thinks very
strongly, that it is a figment of his vast imagination !!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Medved" <steve_nor...@msn.com>
To: "Phono-l" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2011 11:16:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:55:15 -0700
From: smst...@gmail.com
To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
Ward an interesting comment. How would the seller know that?
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Ward Sandstrom <w...@bis.midco.net>
wrote:
> I contacted the seller days ago and he said that as far as he knows
> the
> paint was applied at the factory. He didn't put my question and his
> answer
> back in his auction. Ward S.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" <rich-m...@octoxol.com>
> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
>
>
>
> Some of these enhancements were done in the early 50s, and during the
>> depression to improve mail order saleability of used phonos. To tell
>> what
>> you are looking at you would have to be doing paint analysis to date
>> it.
>> Does not realy look Factory though.
>>
>> On 04/09/2011 11:23 AM, Steve Andersen wrote:
>>
>>> I believe it was not done at the factory. Usually the factory would
>>> put
>>> special guilt on the casting, not the case. Either a jobber or an
>>> artistic
>>> owner did this.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>> On Apr 9, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Vinyl Visions wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I found an auction for an Edison GEM, with rose flowered horn and
>>>> decorated case which matches and appears to be old...
>>>>
>>>> Question: did Edison ever produce a machine with a flowered case to
>>>> match the horn - seller claims it to be VERY rare?
>>>> eBay Item number: 230604577714
>>>>
>>>>
http://cgi.ebay.com/Edison-Gem-Phonograph-Rose-Flower-Horn-Case-Very-Rare_W0QQitemZ230604577714QQcategoryZ38029QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m1374QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DPI%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8335346353050994345
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