Greetings: A friend and collector writes the following re
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/clt/843879502.html ===================================================================== "Wow! One of the extremely rare glass-cased Disk Grapho-Claxtophones! I surely wish I lived close enough to pick it up; as you say, a bargain price. As I understand it, only 5 of these machines were manufactured in a joint venture by Claxton and Columbia for display at the 1903 World's Fair in Dubuque, Iowa (theme: "Corn: A Benefactor to Man"), where the clear case was intended to display the superioriority of a motor those two firms had developed over that employed by Victor in its top-end machines. None were thought to have survived the trip back to the Columbia factory following the exhibition, as a careless rail baggage clerk dropped the shipping case in which they had been packed, but I guess one must have after all. That is a major rarity, and I'm really excited to see it. Thanks for sharing! I hope that whoever buys it knows how to restore that case. The best bet would probably be Black Windex, which combines regular glass cleaner with rotten stone abrasive to remove the century-plus accumulation of fingerprints and grime." ===================================================================== Cheers, etc. Doug -- _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008
