Bruce,
In the case of a machine like yours even if if there are twice as many existing
as are currently known it is a very hard to find machine.
Steve
> Steve, I agree completely and hope for collectors interested in these
> machines that at least a few more will be found. The thing that supports the
> 'few' is that they were made for only a year (more like 10 months), were
> very expensive and a good estimate of orginal production numbered about 200
> machines. Frow wasn't much help. It seems that somebody at the National
> Monument could be a scource of desperately needed information regarding that
> machine and the number mfg.. I bought the machine from Charley H. and in
> talking with him and at least one other rabid collector, those are the
> numbers that are known and a good guess as to the number built. Charley told
> me he had gotten the machine from the original owner in N.J., somebody that
> had worked for Edison. There were many old pictures, some autographed, all
> to do with Edison or the Company on the walls, when he got the machine. He
> thought it to be someone high up in the Company.
> As far as I'm concerned I hope 100 more turn up sooner than later. It
> wouldn't affect the value of mine in the least, not to me anyway. Spread the
> happiness.
>
> Very best,
> Bruce M.
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