Mike, the reason that the seller "knows" that is obvious in his statement:


Like most eBay items it starts with a statement of authenticity:
"Extremely rare!
Body and case are wood, painted black, with gold trim on base and rose flowers 
and daisy on case.
I have been collecting antiques for over forty years from coast to coast.  
This is the only one I have ever seen."


So this is how he "knows" the paint is original:
"HE has NEVER seen one." :)


Neither has anyone else, so maybe there is a reason for that... it is a one-off 
previous owner painted machine. 
It could have been painted by the original owner, shortly after it left the 
factory and the paint would be 
"period authentic" - 100 + yrs. old. The thing that looked non-factory, is that 
the flower design on the horn
and the flower design on the case, were similar but not the same design/style. 
The horn had the same gold
scroll work added as on the base - not a difficult task for an artist. 


> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:55:15 -0700
> From: smst...@gmail.com
> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay GEM - Is this real?
> 
> Ward an interesting comment. How would the seller know that?
> 
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Ward Sandstrom <w...@bis.midco.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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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