I contacted the seller days ago and he said that as far as he knows the
paint was applied at the factory. He didn't put my question and his answer
back in his auction. Ward S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich" <rich-m...@octoxol.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
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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