In a message dated 1/14/2006 10:53:54 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Yep, seen them.......this isn't a Douglas machine............ -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Daniel Melvin" <[email protected]> > I think you are fortetting about the Douglas cabinet victors. They are > indeed victors put together away from Victor. I'm not sure it is fair to say > victor didn't do this. They most definately did with Douglas. I don't think > it can be said they any less of a victor machine. And, they go for huge > money when the very rare machines become available. I think the machine in > question may have been made at the same time that the douglas cabinets were > being produced. I know that vic V and vic VI douglas machines existed. They > are in Fabrizio's books if anyone is interested. With all this talk about what is "real" and what is not, you might want to look at page 52 in Fabrizio an Paul's "Phonographs with Flair". There is a "Craftsman" machine and case which is very similar to the machine which was offered on eBay. It is listed as being VR or "very rare". Not even a brand name machine! So it is all in the eye of the beholder as to what one considers desireable. ---Art Heller
