Actually, the appraiser on the Road Show was Nick Hawkins, who handles mechanical music, incl. phonographs, for Skinner in Boston. He was previously with Christie's in London, and should know quite a bit about phonographs. I was surprised that his performance on the show was not very good. Ray
----- Original Message ----- From: "funk" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Re: Edison Phono on Antique Road Show this week > The Road Show has some of the best appraisers in the world in the the more > high profile areas: furniture, painting, jewelry, militaria, american > pottery, toys & dolls. With respect to music, they have quite good > appraisers of musical instruments (violins and guitars). But, let's face > it, wind-up phonographs and related records/accessories has a relatively > narrow collecting base. Hence, they'll use an appraiser with some > generalist knowledge and let it go at that. Cam you really blame them? > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
