I went to his house in Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara CA after he passed away..his sone was selling some of his stuff. I got to go into the attic space built above his garage, and there were STACKS of Oak spearpoint horns. I was a raaw beginner at that time and didn't buy much. There were some nice machines, as I recall. I didn't get to go into his house, just his shop. JOhn
[email protected] wrote: In a message dated 2/2/2006 3:22:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The current seller on eBay is honest in calling the horn a reproduction but I have seen a couple of these freaks go for decent money when the neophyte bidders were led to believe the horns were original to the 1905 period. To view the current Frick's Freak on eBay search for item #6601188736. ============================ I'm going to need to dig through my bookshelves tonight, somewhere I know I still have one of Frick's catalogs from the 1960s. It would be interesting to look at it again. I have a horn exactly like the one on eBay, only painted maroon and with no stripes. It's a hideous little thing that came on a Columbia B I bought years back. I wondered what in the heck it could be frin, it didn't look like any phonograph horn I'd ever seen and it was quite obviously not old! I threw it in the garage and it's collected dust ever since. However Frick certainly did have some very fine machines in his collection! Best regards, Rene Rondeau _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list [email protected] Phono-L Archive http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
