I bet you could have knocked the seller over with a feather, after the final bidding !! He obviously would be even more in shock, if he knew what the ultimate potential value of his little hunk of worthless iron and strange looking parts actually is.
----- Original Message ----- From: clockworkh...@aol.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:46:07 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Why did this go so high This is the works from an Edison Eclipse coin op. The motor is the *correct*bipolar motor and not one of the Econowatt Business Phonograph swap ins that are the norm. All you need to do with this one is drop it into the correct cabinet with coin drop box and trip. The extra hole in front of the straight edge is for the coin trip rod. For a purist, this original unmodified Eclipse mechanism is better than solid Platinum. I actually think it went rather low since the listing did not call it a phonograph or state what it really was. An Edison Record Player is hardly enough to describe how really rare that machine was. If I had a spare Eclipse cabinet missing the phonograph mechanism I would have bid upward of $15,000. Regards to all, Al _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
