That is priceless, someone should send it to the generous seller who is listing it, so he or she can incorporate it into the description.
Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Curran" <[email protected]> To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:43 PM Subject: [Phono-L] What a Beauty !!!! > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
