It sounded great, too! Did you download the file provided by Guido? Very nice.
Time to go over the old Fireside with Pledge, I guess ... I'll certainly never have an Idelia! ----- Original Message ----- From: <wilenz...@bellsouth.net> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Idelia SOLD >I don't think there are "hundreds of Idelias" out there. Terry Baer, who > has researched and documented known Ideals and Idelias, knows of about 50 > of > them. Of course there are probably a few more that he does not know > about. > It is likely that most have been restored. So the number of original, > unrestored, Idelias in pristine condition is probably less than ten. That > may explain why this one went so high, even though it did not even have a > wooden horn! (The wood grained metal horn was pretty nice, however). > > Ray