This was bought at an estate sale from a mother and daughter. The daughter was selling off the estate to put her mother in a home. She was starting to lose her memory and it was getting much worse. The auctioneer found this sitting in the living room of her beautiful little home in IL. We bought this is an all original Model 30 Amberol Edison phonograph, a record cabinet full of 4 minute records( and the mother does remember tying string to some of the record lids to keep them matched to the numbers on the record), we also purchased a Edison Home unit, and a Standard Model D with a “N” reproducer on the machine. This can only play the 4 minute records; because of the sapphire needle. The Home and the Standard units did come with the horns; but these are huge, and we will sell them apart from the machine. We too will sell a regular crane and a cygnet crane. The cygnet crane came with the Standard unit along with a Edison Standard Horn. The new buyer can also plug the holes that someone drilled to put the cygnet mount on and use the regular crane as it already has the holes drilled for it. Now lets get to this machine. It will come to the buyer the same way we purchased it, and we have never did a thing to it; waxing the wood with a very expensive type of wood furniture wax. It also comes with a 4 minute music record. “The Stars and Stripes Forever”- March-Marimba band, pat’d 4 #3202. I highly advise the new owner to take this to an expert to have it looked at to get it cleaned. We haven’t played it for years and it was 12 years ago when we purchased it. We certainly would like for the new owner to receive a top notch phonograph. After taking a closer look it looks like the machine has a crack into the wood on the left hand side. Not sure if this would hurt the quality of the machine; but felt it was fair to mention. We absolutly feel everything else look to be just fine. Please take a look at the photograph provided as this should tell the whole story; and we added another photograph to show the crack. We almost forgot to tell you that it does come with the crank handle. We also think at one time this was restored; but no idea how long ago, and could be the reason to cover up the crack.
As usual we want to thank all my lookers and bidders alike. I once again ask that you continue to keep our troops, and their families, in your thought and prayers. May GOD Bless You and may GOD continue to Bless this Great Country, The United States of America. Perhaps we should remind our Senator’s and our Representor’s the same. I can remember one time I was told that when a country becomes divided it will fall. Are we divided? We need to come together as a whole and pray for our own country. Each year we continue to recover from more floods, tornadoes and we still haven’t recovered from the storms in the deep south. We feel that they are forgotten, and more and more people are losing their homes, people are still being laid off, and the government still has us lulled into thinking we are recovering. In the USA today 1 out of 7 live in poverty anything less than $25,000 a year and 436 million are on food stamps. So we ask that you please pray for our own country. Thank you.
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SHIPPING COST: Do to the weight and to the size of the machine I strongly feel it may vary where we ship it too. PLEASE do not use the invoice until I can give you the proper shipping cost. We strongly feel we will have to use UPS; If the winning bidder wants it shipped differently you must let us know. FEDEX is 22 miles from our home and will not use that unless you also want to pay for our gas money it cost us to drive the van over there. Our van gets 19 miles a gallon. We are HONEST; and take a lot of pride in that. We will let you know that our starting fee will be as low as possible; and if we don’t use all the shipping cost, if you use pay pal, we will assure you that each cent will be refunded. If you would like to pick this up; we are sorry but we do not allow strangers in our home. If you live in a 40 mile radius we will meet you halfway; but you must pay for the gas we use, and our van uses 19 cents a gallon. We do not send any of our items to APO’s, to AK, HI, or overseas. So, we ask that you please do not bid as this makes everything difficult. Thank you for reading all of this and may GOD Bless You, The Stoner’s
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