I hope someday to own a C-2, I think it is just an amazingly cool machine. The rarity does not really even factor into it at all. The combination pickup for lateral & DD, the radio technology, the fact it is the end of an era. I actually like the C-2 better than the C-1 only in that the C-1 is just so big and looks like a phonograph was jammed in as an afterthought making record loading etc kind of awkward, although it certainly is a beautiful piece. Bill
On 4/15/11 12:05 PM, "Barry Kasindorf" <ba...@barrykasindorf.com> wrote: >Like The Edison C-2, I thought it was so rare I would never hope to >have one. I have had 3. And Chuck Azzalina had 7 in his basement last >time I was there to fix. He started keeping count thinking the number >surviving was in the 10's and stopped at 200 or so known. Same with >C-1. There were 2 know for the longest time, then 2 more showed up >then 1 more now I think there are about 10 or so out there. It isn't >how many but how cool they are. C-1 and C-2 are very special machines >and would be cool if there were 2000 left. I actually prefer if >something I like is common, it means I can afford it :-). Collecting >just so you can say you have 1 of only 2 known is what some people >collect for but I am not one of them. >-Barry > > >On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Steven Medved <steve_nor...@msn.com> >wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >> > > > >-- >-Barry >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
