I watch the Antique Road Show quite often. Some of the "experts" seem quite well informed and do special research for individual items. The "phono guy" obviously had done no research. He had little understanding of the unusual Herzog cabinet which was the valuable piece. The presentation certainly wouldn't have inspired a novice collector. SIGH.........
stan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loran T.Hughes" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Re: Edison Phono on Antique Road Show this week > Fortunately, I was wearing my boots while watching that episode. Makes you > wonder about everything else you see on that show. > > Loran > > On Mar 29, 2005, at 2:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Re: The Antique Road Show in Reno >> >> That was something of a let down! The phonograph shown was an Edison >> Home >> Model D with an S reproducer in an alligatored finish oak Herzog #740 >> "Cylophone" cabinet. The unrebuilt reproducer was set to the wrong >> stylii so the >> reproduction of sound was terrible. The person doing the description >> and >> evaluation seemed less knowledgeable than one could hope for. He had no >> idea if >> the cabinet was sold by Edison or an aftermarket item. One wonders what >> they >> would have said should something really esoteric come before them. This >> was >> not a good representation of an antique phonograph on the Antique Road >> Show in >> my opinion. >> >> Kindest regards to all on the list, >> >> Al > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
