so what did it end up actually being?

On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:45 PM, john robles wrote:

> Very apt, I thought of that too. It's probably an Amberola I.
>
> Richard Rubin <[email protected]> wrote:  In my experience,  
> when people mistakenly use the term "Victrola," they're
> usually talking about an inside-horn machine. If it were an outside  
> horn
> machine thay would have most like said "gramophone" or just  
> phonograph. My
> guess would be that it's an Amberola.
>
>
>> From: john robles
>> Reply-To: Antique Phonograph List
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>> To: Antique Phonograph List
>
>> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] The Elusive Edison Victrola
>> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> I had thought about that. Of course the CAPS show is this weekend  
>> too...
>>
>> [email protected] wrote: If it is high valued machine you may be  
>> able to
>> create the chance of purchasing the machine by offering a higher  
>> but a very
>> fair price. If it is an opera in original condition offer at least  
>> $2500
>> and see what they say.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] The Elusive Edison Victrola
>>
>>
>> I hope it's an Ediphone. I'd be sick if it were an Opera...
>>
>> estott wrote: Could be anything from an Opera to an
>> Ediphone.
>>
>> Eric Stott
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "john robles"
>> To:
>>
>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:20 AM
>> Subject: [Phono-L] The Elusive Edison Victrola
>>
>>
>>> Hi All
>>> I got a call from a local antique store, someone needs their 'Edison
>>> Victrola' spruced up because they have a buyer for it. I called the
>> owner,
>>> who sounds like she is about sixty-something, and she told me she
>>> inherited it from her dad. I expected it to be a Diamond Disc  
>>> machine,
>> but
>>> it is a cylinder player. I haven't seen it yet, but the fact that  
>>> she
>>> already has a buyer and that it is going to pass through my hands  
>>> before
>>> it goes to its new home makes me think it will be something really
>> choice
>>> like an Idelia, and that she will have sold it to the other party  
>>> for
>> like
>>> $250 or something and I will have no chance to rescue it! It  
>>> comes with
>>> several cylinders too, the ming fairly boggles at what could be  
>>> there,
>>> when a machine passes from its original family...Oh, but the one
>> drawback
>>> is that she says she doesn't have any needles for it....
>>> john Robles
>>> _______________________________________________
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