Eight yrs ago Wild Bill had two Alvas at Union for sale, I remember well because I was surprised that there was little interest in them. One had two Cygnet Brackets back to back. Jerry told me that stores used to mount 2 cygnet horns back to back for advertising displays. In any case the Alvas were both model B's and had different motors in them, but they both were marked Edison. Jim Kenealy took one look at them and bought them both for $1600. apiece. I believe that they are still in his collection. I still ponder why there was so little interest in them then. Al Menashe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Medved" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Alva
> Hi Al, > > Thanks so much I am very impressed with your knowledge. > > Steve > > >>In all my years of collecting I have seen just 4 Alva machines and have >>only >>heard of a couple more. I give the survival rate of the Edison >>Phonograph >>to be around 10% of production as a rule of thumb. If I had heard of 100 >>Alva >>machines I would think they made 1000 but that is not the case. >> >>I would love to hear from anyone having an Alva off list. >>[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) >> >>Best wishes to the list, >> >>Al >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Phono-L mailing list >>[email protected] >> >>Phono-L Archive >>http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
