In a message dated 7/17/2007 8:17:44 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
No prob Ray. It is just amazing how many of these crapophone auctions there are in Australia, and Germany seems to be the other big culprit. If we're discussing crapophones I thought I'd my little story. I was just in Istanbul a few weeks ago. I was wandering around the Grand Bazaar and looking for phonographs. I was first told that there were NO phonographs in the Grand Bazaar. Incidentally, the Grand Bazaar is probably as big as the Brimfield antique show and has been there for probably 500 years! Finally I found somebody who knew of someone who sold phonographs. He ran me around the Bazaar for a while and we finally found the shop. When we got there, the shop was closed! But somehow the tradesman across the hall had a key! So we entered without the owner being there. It was not only a shop but was a crapophone manufacturing place! There was a pile of motors just waiting to be placed in newly manufactured boxes. Bright brass horns were ready for assembly. All kinds of junk and old no-name reproducers were everywhere. I think it was more fun than finding a real antique phonograph shop! Needless to say, there was nothing that I wanted to buy. I knew that I might have found a crapophone or two in Istanbul but I didn't know I might find a crapophone birthplace! It was actually very exciting! My little story----Art Heller ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour From [email protected] Tue Jul 17 22:01:16 2007 From: [email protected] (Andrew Baron) Date: Tue Jul 17 22:02:55 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Dumpster Diving Dan In-Reply-To: <004801c7c8e0$e1872b30$0201a...@daddell> References: <004801c7c8e0$e1872b30$0201a...@daddell> Message-ID: <[email protected]> I have one garbage rescue. A friend of a friend gave me a gift several years ago, of a Thorens Excelda in original red crackle paint and generally very nice and complete right down to the intact leather handle. I asked him where he got it and he told me he discovered it sticking out of the top of a garbage can near a college campus. I later found out that his discovery dated back some forty five years prior, and he had kept it all that time. Andy Baron From [email protected] Tue Jul 17 22:32:24 2007 From: [email protected] (Dan Kj) Date: Tue Jul 17 22:34:33 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Dumpster Diving Dan References: <004801c7c8e0$e1872b30$0201a...@daddell> Message-ID: <000301c7c8fd$063535a0$9301a...@lap> Don't be too envious; the lost value of my house (now worthless) more than absorbs any dumpster finds .... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt" <[email protected]> To: "'Antique Phonograph List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:10 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Dumpster Diving Dan Man! Where do you live? I wanna be friends with Dan the Dumpster Diver... Kudos indeed! (Although I have not yet been fortunate enough to get any type of phonograph from someone's curbside giveaways, I have acquired various other antiques. And in every case, they were disposed of by, or on behalf of, elderly persons.) Walt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Kj Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:00 PM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Another gem from Mario Meanwhile, real antiques are readily available and sometime go begging or into the trash ! I just got another Standard disc machine, in very decent condition, out of the trash of an elderly neighbor whose kids stuck her into a 'home'. Some modification to the spindle & it'll be ready to play 'normal' 78s.
