I worked on a Columbia machine that had stood in its owner's front window for years. One side of the red painted horn had faded to light almost non-existent pink.
Ron L -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:07 PM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Mystery The red underneath the elbo is not exposed to ultraviolet. No UV no fade. Very few pigments in use in the early 1900s were color fast. Almost all of them fade and the color that they fade to, in most cases, is not what you would expect. On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:55:50 EDT, [email protected] wrote: > >In a message dated 9/3/2007 7:38:56 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: >Why would there be maroon paint under the elbow and >nowhere else? What am I missing? Any suggestions >would be appreciated. Thanks, Jerry Blais >Hi Jerry, > >Your comments made me look carefully at my Victor O. I have a Victor O with >the original horn and it had no maroon accents about the horn (I thought). >Now when examining the very undersurface of the horn near where it meets the >elbow I can find traces of maroon! And when removing the horn from the >elbow...voila! the horn is maroon! Actually, when scratched (as would be expected >beneath the elbow) the maroon reveals the amber color beneath. So I must >conclude that the maroon accents have indeed faded away with time, UV, or >whatever, with maroon remaining only in the protected area underneath the elbow. >Fascinating! Thanks. >----Art Heller >************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at >http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
