Anyone here collect old Phonograph players, or "talking machines"?

[admin]

No, she hasn't said a word. Not a peep. Of course, she's been out in Mountain View, California this last week, but I am sure that makes no difference.

I have to pick she and her father up in Tampa tonight around midnight. I have until then to put it all back together...

[Bad Boy Bad Boy]

Jayne, when you have an old piece, the first things you must do, is make sure everything is what is should be, same age and all. That is what makes the piese or item what it is, and it's value.

That's why it has to get opened up.

[bronco54501]

It is the inner beast that comes out with most men. Ever watch tool time...?? same thing.

[jayne]

No BBBB I dont understand it.... cuz what I like I just like.... it is never about the dollar value not to me.....its about weather or not I like the way it looks....I do like clean sharp lines in my wood furniture and overstuffing in my cushions....but its about comfort not dollar value.....I like it I buy it I use it......there is nothing in my house that grows in value except my kids and grandkids.....I have friends that collect antiques and yes they are beautiful just not my thing.....me I like heirloom seeds....I collect them......think the veggies from them (altho not as pretty as those you buy in the markets)..... taste much better.......Quietdude needs to rebuild my greenhouse.....

[Bad Boy Bad Boy]

Jayne that's okay that you don't understand why he is tearing into this machine. But, I am very sure that ADMIN really, really wants to know he got his money worth, and make sure he wasn't ripped off by buying a fake, or part fake item. There are reasons behind the madness... Sometimes when these items are bought, the buyer finds flaws, and then has to get parts to make it Org again also. It happens all the time...

Myself I use to go to Estate Sales, and that was how I got many things worth there money, my time, and a profit to make. Many I also kept.

[jayne]

thats cool you come across heirloom seeds you get em for me.....you are up there near Amish and mennonites they have many of the seeds I look for....

[Bad Boy Bad Boy]

At $40.00 a pound I will buy and sell them back to anyone, for that's the going price up here, plus shiping and handling fee's, have money orders ready.

[inpainokla]

admin Wrote:Finally got the grill off. The trim holding the cloth in made it very tight. May need to take that cloth off after all. I will really have to force the grill back in if I don't.

Anyway, finally got a look at the shell that comprises the horn. It is in good shape, so I am pleased. This was the last area of the machine I needed to check.

that is too cool admin just to think that shell has been in that box for nearly a 100 years just thinking of the places and people that shellophone has been around gives me goosebumps..if it could talk imagine the stories it could tell..

[jayne]

ahhhhhhh BBBB thats Okay I will just have my church family have their families back in Pa and in Il send me 20 or 30 seeds.....of what I dont have....a lb is way to many lol I dont wanna plant near that many altho heirloom seeds kept cool will last forever....but you could go on the internet and sell em thats where I got alot of mine last year.....10 seeds at a time....but that normally gave me 8-10 plants which netted me lots of veggies as well as lots of seed.......mainly I am interested in strange tomato plants.....I think they are cool.....

[admin]

jayne Wrote:why do you guys always have to tear stuff apart? it was so pretty just as it sat......I bet Mrs admin wants to whup you for messing up her pretty furniture....

Got my wife home early this morning. Turns out she made a peep after all.....

She definitely has a view similar to Jayne's.