The original owners are long dead unless you consider someone born around 1920 to parents that bought the edison who is still alive to be an original owner.
-----Original Message----- From: Rich <[email protected]> To: Antique Phonograph List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 4:00 pm Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Amberola I vs III innards There have been several recoded cases of that marriage with evidence that it is original. Keep in mind that as cylinders were displaced by disk records these machines went to the refurbishers and were resold as new-used machines through the catalog stores. Th old cylinder machines became trade-ins or sold outright. Probably late teens and early 20s period which would make the original owners close to 90 now. On 01/11/2011 02:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I have a 1B mech in a 1A cabinet that was original as far as the original > owners family could remember. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich<[email protected]> > To: Antique Phonograph List<[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 12:13 pm > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Amberola I vs III innards > > > Seems that after many of those machines left the factory the retail dealers > swapped the mechanisms to make customers happy with the color of the machine. > > On 01/11/2011 10:54 AM, Peter Fraser wrote: >> See my prior response, plus...my III mech and cabinet already have >> mismatched numbers... >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- Peter >> [email protected] >> >> On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:44 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Jerry is correct about mixing a 1A and a III, but a 1B uses the same >>> mechanism as the III. Even so, the number stamped into the III mechanism >>> will not match that on the 1A/B cabinet. This sort of mixing& matching >>> permanently separates mechanisms and cabinets, preventing the proper >>> restoration of the original machines. I'd advise against it. >>> >>> George P. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Peter Fraser<[email protected]> >>> To: phono-l<[email protected]> >>> Sent: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 5:14 pm >>> Subject: [Phono-L] Amberola I vs III innards >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone happen to know how much difference there is between the guts of >>> an >>> >>> Amberola I and a III? Hoping to do a swap into a Amberola I cabinet from a >>> >>> messed up III I have... >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks... >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Peter >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> >>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
