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
Edison did offer special decoration but that was usually on the metal parts and
not on the cabinet. I tend to think some amateur did this, though it is very
nice.
John Robles
--- On Sat, 4/9/11, Vinyl Visions vinyl.visi...@live.com wrote:
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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
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
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.
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From: Rich rich-m...@octoxol.com
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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
Mike, the reason that the seller knows that is obvious in his statement:
Like most eBay items it starts with a statement of authenticity:
Extremely rare!
Body and case are wood, painted black, with gold trim on base and rose flowers
and daisy on case.
I have been collecting antiques for over
He is also correct, it is original paint. It is not a copy of paint, it
is original paint right out of a can and/or tube, and it is old. Now how
old is not defined. To some 10 years is old to others one thousand is
young. He is not claiming that this decoration was applied
contemporaneously by
So true about the rarity factor on ebay. Yesterday someone had a Victrola 50 on
there listed as very old and rare, and it was priced at $1,700.00. Never mind
that there are three others on ebay right now priced at around $350.00...
John
--- On Sat, 4/9/11, Rich rich-m...@octoxol.com wrote:
Body and case are wood, painted black. Edison did not paint cases and lids
black, especially covering his trademark decal on the lid. This did not come
from the factory like that.
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To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:20:57 -0400
Subject:
My response as to how does he know it's factory was tongue in cheek. When I
hear stuff like that or only 3 know to exist I always ask or think who told
you that. I remember hearing only three of these phongraphs exist. I smiled
and thought well I have one, that makes 4. I didn't say it tho'
Mike
Factory painted or not, I think it looks nice. If I wanted a gem, I would
buy it, if the price was right.
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:50 PM, john robles john9...@pacbell.net wrote:
So true about the rarity factor on ebay. Yesterday someone had a Victrola
50 on there listed as very old and rare,
As far as he knows is a very loaded statement. In other words within the realm
of his knowledge. He is either a cheat or knows very little.
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
My 0.02 is on a early 50s antique shop with a big pile of these to move
out for 15.00ea original and $20.00 decorated.
On 04/09/2011 10:13 PM, Steven Medved wrote:
Body and case are wood, painted black. Edison did not paint cases and lids
black, especially covering his trademark decal on
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