About three years ago, I acquired an Edison A-200 Disc Phonograph, and although the metal finish on the machine as a whole was the conventional gold-plated surface, the crank (which obviously must have come from another machine) has the oxidized bronze finish, and a richly colored original walnut finish on the wood handle portion. It seems to fit the machine quite well in terms of approximately proper distance from the cabinet to the elbow, and is clearly an Edison crank. Could this have originally been on an Amberola A-1 or similar machine with the special finish? Were any Diamond Disc machines offered with this finish on the metal parts?
Andy Baron From [email protected] Thu Jun 21 18:10:10 2007 From: [email protected] ([email protected]) Date: Thu Jun 21 18:11:13 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Oxidized bronze or copper flashing D.D. crank? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <001101c7b424$1503a050$7201a...@lap> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Andy, The "A-150" Disc Phonograph was regularly supplied with an oxidized bronze finish on its metal parts. George Paul -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Baron <[email protected]> To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 7:20 pm Subject: [Phono-L] Oxidized bronze or copper flashing D.D. crank? About three years ago, I acquired an Edison A-200 Disc Phonograph, and although the metal finish on the machine as a whole was the conventional gold-plated surface, the crank (which obviously must have come from another machine) has the oxidized bronze finish, and a richly colored original walnut finish on the wood handle portion. It seems to fit the machine quite well in terms of approximately proper distance from the cabinet to the elbow, and is clearly an Edison crank. Could this have originally been on an Amberola A-1 or similar machine with the special finish? Were any Diamond Disc machines offered with this finish on the metal parts?? ? Andy Baron? _______________________________________________? Phono-L mailing list? http://phono-l.oldcrank.org? ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From [email protected] Thu Jun 21 22:28:18 2007 From: [email protected] (Andrew Baron) Date: Thu Jun 21 22:29:18 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Edison stop survey, and reply to Oxidized bronze or copper flashing D.D. crank? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <001101c7b424$1503a050$7201a...@lap> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Thanks, George for this insight. Given that, and the reasonably good fit to the relatively small A-200 cabinet, this does seem a likely origin of this particular crank. Do you think you could shed a light on the question I've posted a couple of times over the past few days, regarding whether the user- adjustable (semi-automatic) stop on my ser. no. 1429 A-250 was the first type of stop scheme that Edison employed on the new Disc Phonograph? In this arrangement, there's a small round knob on the start lever, which can also serve as a manual stop lever. Any idea of when that type of stop was discontinued in favor of the more familiar type with the rigid stop trip lever on the lift post? I'd like to informally survey any owners of these early Edison Disc Phonographs that have this unusual early style stop, to find out the model and serial numbers of the machines that have it. To show graphically what I'm referring to, I can email a photo of this odd lever arrangement to anyone who might like to help. I'm hoping to use this detail and possibly others to learn approximately when my early A-250 was built. Best regards, Andy On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Andy, > > The "A-150" Disc Phonograph was regularly supplied with an oxidized > bronze finish on its metal parts. > > George Paul From [email protected] Fri Jun 22 05:27:22 2007 From: [email protected] (Rich) Date: Fri Jun 22 05:35:00 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Edison stop survey, and reply to Oxidized bronze or copper flashing D.D. crank? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Have you checked the information in "The Edison Disc Phonographs and Diamond Discs" by George Frow? On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:28:18 -0600, Andrew Baron wrote: >Thanks, George for this insight. Given that, and the reasonably good >fit to the relatively small A-200 cabinet, this does seem a likely >origin of this particular crank. >Do you think you could shed a light on the question I've posted a >couple of times over the past few days, regarding whether the user- >adjustable (semi-automatic) stop on my ser. no. 1429 A-250 was the >first type of stop scheme that Edison employed on the new Disc >Phonograph? In this arrangement, there's a small round knob on the >start lever, which can also serve as a manual stop lever. >Any idea of when that type of stop was discontinued in favor of the >more familiar type with the rigid stop trip lever on the lift post? >I'd like to informally survey any owners of these early Edison Disc >Phonographs that have this unusual early style stop, to find out the >model and serial numbers of the machines that have it. To show >graphically what I'm referring to, I can email a photo of this odd >lever arrangement to anyone who might like to help. >I'm hoping to use this detail and possibly others to learn >approximately when my early A-250 was built. >Best regards, >Andy >On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Andy, >> >> The "A-150" Disc Phonograph was regularly supplied with an oxidized >> bronze finish on its metal parts. >> >> George Paul >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
