Some of these enhancements were done in the early 50s, and during the
depression to improve mail order saleability of used phonos. To tell
what you are looking at you would have to be doing paint analysis to
date it. Does not realy look Factory though.
On 04/09/2011 11:23 AM, Steve Andersen wrote:
I believe it was not done at the factory. Usually the factory would put special
guilt on the casting, not the case. Either a jobber or an artistic owner did
this.
Steve
On Apr 9, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Vinyl Visions wrote:
I found an auction for an Edison GEM, with rose flowered horn and decorated
case which matches and appears to be old...
Question: did Edison ever produce a machine with a flowered case to match the
horn - seller claims it to be VERY rare?
eBay Item number: 230604577714
http://cgi.ebay.com/Edison-Gem-Phonograph-Rose-Flower-Horn-Case-Very-Rare_W0QQitemZ230604577714QQcategoryZ38029QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m1374QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DPI%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8335346353050994345
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