Could be anything from an Opera to an Ediphone.

Eric Stott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john robles" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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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