Yes, originality is the desired goal and is getting more difficult to find as time goes by. I feel sorry for the newbies entering the hobby today who strive for this. Just this month on eBay was a "never been played brown wax record" in a ratty Gold Molded box and an Edison Electric Phonograph which is an M motor base with a late Model A Triumph topworks that has craftsman added idler pulleys to the topworks but with no pulley stanchions and a serial number on a patent plate way to high. I really do miss the golden days when I would answer an ad for a phonograph in the newspaper. One was for an Amberola DX which I still own. It read simply Edison Amberola $275 which in 1965 was rather high but I called and went anyway. The very old couple selling the machine had it sitting on a curved front Hertzog matching oak record cabinet full of desirable titles of Blue Amberols. I asked them what they wanted for the cabinet and they said nothing since it went with the phonograph. I told them the combination was worth much more. They simply would not take more than $275. As I was packing my new treasures I asked what was so special about the figure $275 and they responded that was what the vet's bill was for their cocker spaniel to get a new gold tooth! Regards to All and may all your finds be rare ones... Al
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