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Vintage Santa Claus Reindeer And Sleigh Rare German, Germany ? Christmas ?huge
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eBay This vintage collectible from Germany is a Santa Claus figurine featuring reindeer and a sleigh. Made in early 1900s using chalk material, it is a rare find that will make a great addition to any holiday or seasonal collection. The intricate design and attention to detail of this piece make it a timeless treasure that will surely impress collectors and enthusiasts alike. The Santa Claus figurine comes with a pair of beautiful reindeers and sleigh, making it a perfect centerpiece for your Christmas decor. Add this to your collection today and experience the joy it brings! There are signs of wear on Santa. He needs a good bath. His clothes are a bit tattered, but nothing ripped that I can really see his arms go up and down as one unit the reindeer‘s are in nice condition as you can see, some of the straps have been replaced. Some are original. the holes where the reindeer‘s horns go in are larger than they should be, and will need attention, along with the reindeer horns themselves they have several cracks in them. It is put together by wire, so they are holding together fine, but they are going to need a professional to secure them properly. There is one chip of a horn that has been replaced. You can see the darker color in one of the photos. The reindeer‘s have a few little scuff marks here in there, but overall really nice condition the sleighs in good condition and has a pole that goes through the bottom of it. I have not tried to put it together because it is probably missing other pieces of strapping if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask shippers must contact me for quote and addition folks for every hundred dollars of insurance there’s a dollar addedSanta 12inches tall and 7 inches wide, sleigh is about 18inches longThe reindeer’s, are about 13 inches long and around 9 inches high without the horns on .the horns are about 8 inches long remember folks this reindeer’s straps are in need of repair the holes where the reindeer’s horns fit in and the strapping as far as I know that’s it along with a few little scuff marks here, and there ask questions before you bidOn Dec-05-23 at 17:06:12 PST, seller added the following anybody know if Santa‘s face is supposed to be dirty from being in a lot of chimneys? (Condition: Pre-Owned)
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22100.00 USD 2025-11-20
Rare 1971 Schwinn 5 Speed Grey Ghost Stingray Krate Bicycle, Original Disc Brake
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Hello everyone, have I got a special treat instore for you today.To start off, I’m pretty sure most of you, who happen to be 40 years old and up, remember the legendary Schwinn Black Phantom bicycles, right? Back in the 50s and 60s they were one of the best selling bicycles ever created by the renowned Schwinn Bicycle Company. It’s flaring black and red paint, its striking headlight, and taillight, its out of this world buzzing tank horn and its awesome chrome accents, embodied the pure power the Black Phantom spirit had over anyone who ever owned one of these classic gems. They were so popular, in fact, that Schwinn decided to resurrect the Black Phantom spirit and started making them again in 1995, but for only a short period of time..Now, if all you Kool Cats out there heard of the Schwinn Black Phantom, I’m pretty sure you’ve all heard of the famous 1971 Schwinn 5 speed Grey Ghost, right? The Schwinn Grey Ghost, with its amazing sleek design, its awesome 5 speed capabilities, its new state of the art disc brake system, and its mind blowing special features, made every young boy in this country literally drop down this his knees and beg his parents to get one of these bicycles for him. As with the spirit of the Black Phantom, the lifeforce of the Grey Ghost literally mesmerized, energized, hypnotized, and even galvanized every young boy who was lucky enough to own one of these awesome bicycles. I can’t tell you the amount of green envy the other boys had, who did not own one of these riding pleasures, but what I can tell you is it was a lot.Case in point: Please take a gander at the picture of the young boy riding his very own 1971 Schwinn 5-speed Grey Ghost Krate Stingray bicycle with its new state of art disc brake. Look closely at the smile beaming from his face. That same smile is exactly what you or your loved one are going to have on your faces when you or he will be riding this bicycle down the street with all the neighbors staring with awe in their eyes and their mouths wide open. With that being said, let’s now continue on with my storyline Folks what I am selling here today is this incredibly fine looking, mostly restored, 1971 Schwinn 5 speed Grey Ghost Stingray Krate bicycle with its original and bodacious disc brake. Out of all the Schwinn Krate 5 speed bicycles ever created by the Schwinn Bicycle Company, the Schwinn “Grey Ghost” is the rarest and most sought after than them all.As you can see in the photos this bicycle looks extremely nice. I would say on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being totally blah and a 10 being nearly perfect, I would rate this bicycle as being a 9.7. As the pictures show there is very little rust on this American made beauty. The shiny silver mist paint looks fantastic, the wheels look awesome and most of the chrome on it is in great shape. Let me now break everything down as to what goes with this most amazing bicycle.Let’s start off here with the frame. It is the original 1971 Schwinn 5-speed Stingray Krate frame. It has been professionally painted with the same silver mist color that was on the original 1971 Schwinn Grey Ghost bicycles. The frame serial number is CGxxxxxx which means it was made in March of 1971 at the now defunct Schwinn Bicycle Company in Chicago, Illinois. That means this frame is now officially 53 years old. but you would never guess that by looking at it.Let’s now go to the Chainguard. The chainguard is the original restored 1971 Schwinn chainguard. The silver mist paint is nearly flawless and the silk screen Schwinn logo is very nice. As the pictures show, it looks great and it matches the frame perfectly.The sissy bar with shocks is a vintage Schwinn sissy bar. Because of its current age, it does have a few abrasions on the shock absorber casings, but overall it looks nice. The chrome shines just fine and dandy in the sunlight.Now let’s move over to the Schwinn banana seat. It is the original 1971 Schwinn Grey Ghost banana seat, There are no rips on this seat of course and it matches the original 1971 Schwinn Grey Ghost color and vinyl texture to a "T".The rear 3.25 inch diameter seat reflector is in great condition. It is the perfect size for the rear of the seat and it is a finishing touch to this outstanding work of art.The chrome seat post on this bike is original. The chrome looks great on it considering it being 50 plus years old. It goes perfect with the seat sitting on top of it. The bottom seat post clamp is also original.This 1971 Schwinn five speed Grey Ghost bicycle would not officially be a complete Schwinn Grey Ghost bicycle unless it had a bona fide Schwinn speedometer on it. The one that is on it right now is an original rebuilt Schwinn speedometer and it works perfect. It has zero miles on it. The Schwinn speedometer cable and driver are also original. How sweet is that?As with the speedometer, this bicycle would not officially be a classic Schwinn Krate Stingray bicycle unless it had a rear black tool bag attached to the sissy bar. This bicycle has an original 1971 Schwinn tool bag and it is in awesome shape. It is the little things like this that makes an awesome bicycle even greater.The original 1971 front fork assembly is in great shape as the pictures show. The forks are straight and the chrome looks very nice on them. Even the two original truss bars look good on it, too.The front and rear fenders are original 1971 fenders. They are in good condition for being over 50 years old. The front safety edge fender is very nice with minute amount of blemishes on it. The rear safety edge fender does have a few small dings here and there on it, but they’re not too bad at all. The chrome on both of them almost shines like mirrors (see closeup of pics for detailed condition) Let’s go to the front wheel now. It is the original restored 1971 Schwinn Atom drum brake wheel. As you can see it is in fantastic condition. It spins freely, it is straight and everything works on it like it should. There is very little to no rust on it considering it is now over 50 years old. As you can see it is one of the better ones out there. I’ve owned over 50 of these Atom drum brake wheels throughout my life and I can honestly say that this is probably the best one I’ve ever had. Look at the reflection of the near mirror finish on the hub. Try to find another Schwinn Atom drum brake wheel that can do that.The front tire is an original 16 inch 1972 dated Schwinn Superior tire. There is only minor cracking going on the sides this tire, but the rest of the tire looks almost like it is new. It still holds air just fine and dandy and there is still plenty of tread life on this original tire.Now turn your undivided attention towards the original rear 5-speed disc brake wheel. As you can see it is in good condition. It spins straight and true like it should.The 28 metal spokes are original. They are strong and they will continue lasting for decades to come. Look how beautiful they look on this wheel. The metal nipples are also original.Now look at the chrome spoke protector just behind the freewheel. It is the original 1971 Schwinn spoke protector and it is in fantastic shape. It almost looks brand new.The 5-speed cog is an original 1971 Schwinn Approved Model J Freewheel. It is in fantastic condition. No hang ups here, folks.The hub is stamped Schwinn Approved Made in France 4 - 71. The rim has the original single knurl and it has the coveted Schwinn tubular S2 stampings on it. Next on the list is the original disc brake disc rotor on this wheel. As you can see it is in very good condition. It turns straight like it should and there is very little wear and tear on it.Now turn your undivided attention towards the disc brake caliper on this wheel. It is the original 1971 disc brake caliper that came with this wheel. It is in decent condition, but it does have a little bit of rust pitting on each side of it.But do you see something that is different on this disc brake caliper? It is missing the date stamp as well as the patent pending information on it. This is a huge mistake and oversight by the Schwinn Bicycle Company which this seldom happens on these Schwinn disc brake wheels.This tells me this particular caliper somehow slipped through the fingers of the Schwinn Quality Control Department. It was their responsibility and theirs alone to make sure these calipers and wheels were stamped correctly with their pertinent information before they officially left the factory assembly lines, but this particular caliper escaped it somehow.Because of this irregularity, it makes this wheel very special. It’s almost like it is a one of a kind wheel. Because this wheel is so unique, due to this obvious oversight done by the Schwinn Quality Control Department, it is going to add much more value to it. It is almost like finding a old penny with Lincoln’s head inverted on it or a postage stamp with the picture turned upside down on it. Try finding another Schwinn disc brake assembly out there that has the same issue that this one has. I’m sure you will not find another one out there anytime soon.And then, of course, there is the original threaded axle, original packed bearings, and 2 chrome threaded nuts and chrome serrated washers on this wheel. They are in good used condition. It literally is the icing on the cake that completes the ensemble of this vintage Schwinn 5-speed wheel.Please note: This disc brake wheel is not the original wheel that came with this bicycle.I am also including with this awesome wheel a bona fide and authentic 1971 dated Schwinn Stingray Slik tire. This tire is in exceptional condition as the pictures shows. There is minimal cracking going on it and it is still soft and agile for its age. It’s one of the better ones you will find out there. It will also add great value to this wheel.Now turn your attention towards the two black flag valve stem covers that are on the wheels. They are new and boy they bring out the pizzazz in this bicycle.The 5-speed shifter is an original 1971 shifter. There is very little to no rust on this awesome shifter. The chrome shines just fine and dandy, especially in the sunlight. The decals look great on it and so does the black shifter knob.The shifter overload tube is in great shape. Often times you will find original overload tubes on bikes that are either bent or they are bruised due to previous use, but not this one. This one is new and it looks great!The handle bars and goose neck stem are original. They each have the 71-year stamping/ embossment on them. The chrome looks nice on them, too, but the handle bars do have the typical road rash in the areas where the original boy owner laid the bike down on the road or sidewalk, so he could go play with his friends. The abrasions are not severe, though, and it still looks good.Then there is the chrome 3 flute bulb horn. It is new, but it matches the same horn sold by Schwinn back in 1971. It adds that finishing touch that completes this spirited bicycle.The left and right brake levers are the original 1971 Weinmann levers. They work on this bike just like if they were new.Then there is the checkerboard mirror on the handlebars. Like the 3 flute bulb horn, it matches the original checkerboard mirror that was sold by the Schwinn Bicycle Company back in 1971. If you are looking for pizazz and a little bit of attention, you will find it here with this new mirror.Let’s look at the headlight now. It is the original 1971 Schwinn pumpkin headlight and it works perfect. The chrome adds to the overall beauty of this incredible bicycle.The black handle grips and brake lever covers are new, but they look just like the originals. They look fantastic with this bike. They are not ripped up or faded like a lot of other handlebar grips and brake lever covers you see on other Schwinn Krate and Stingray bikes.Now turn your attention to the black and white Schwinn streamers attached to the handgrips. They are new and in good shape. If you are looking for that extra edge over the other Krate bikes being sold on eBay, then these will most definitely give it to you.The two grey brake cables and the grey derailleur cable are new and are in great shape. I replaced the original grungy cables with these new ones because the old ones were brittle and starting to fall apart. These new cables will help give this bike many more years of life.The chain is original and it looks great on this bike. The rustic color adds pizzaz and it helps complement the overall appearance of this bicycle.Now turn your attention to the pedal crank and the 52-toothed sprocket. The crank looks decent for its age. The sprocket still has plenty of shiny chrome on it. The crank is date stamped 71.The Schwinn pedals are the original 1971 pedals with silver reflectors. Wow! They are in good condition for being 53 years old. If you are looking for authenticity, then you have found it here with these pedals.Now take a gander at the Schwinn 5-speed derailleur. It is the original 1971 derailleur, but you wouldn’t think that by looking at it. The chrome casing on it is not overly marred up with deep scratches and abrasions like you see on other derailleurs. It is nice and straight and the chrome shines just fine and dandy on it. It has been cleaned and oiled specifically for this sale. It is hard to find a Krate bicycle with a derailleur that looks decent like this one.The kick stand is the original one that came with the bike. I scrubbed most of the surface rust off from it, but you can still see areas of wear and tear on it. It still looks presentable regardless.As you can see I am a good story teller here. I like to tell it like it is and be as truthful and forthcoming as much as I can. I believe in the old adage…. “Honesty is the best Policy.” There maybe areas of the bicycle I may have missed in my description here, but it is all there. If it is nostalgia you are looking for, then you have found it here with this bicycle.My asking price is $14,999.00 obo.Because most of the parts on this bicycle are now over 50 years old, it is being sold “As Is”. There will be no returns or refunds allowed. What you see is what you’ll get so please make sure this is what you want before you purchase it.Shipping is free in the lower 48 states of the Continental United States. I am willing to sell this internationally but the person buying this bicycle internationally will have to pay the full price of the bicycle plus the full shipping charge, the customs fees, and any and all VAT fees associated with it.Good luck and happy bidding. (Condition: Pre-Owned)
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14999.00 USD 2025-11-20
(1895) The Olio Texas A&M 1st Yearbook Antique (The Longhorn) Aggies (HC) (Rare)
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eBay This book is in generally very good condition. The binding is strong and all pages are intact. There are some penciled notations of first names or nicknames on some pages which can be seen in the photos. These are very small, neatly done, and are actually useful in identifying the members of certain organizations for genealogical study purposes. There is also a penciled notation on the 1st inside page from when this book previously belonged to a genealogical society. The outer hardcover does show significant rubbing, some fading, and other signs of shelving / storage, but is in very sturdy condition. The pages are in excellent condition and beyond the very small amount of penciled notations, there is no pen markings, highlighter, or stamps. There is some very minor age spotting or slight discoloration spots, and at least one page (which can be seen from both sides in the photos.) has a small amount fraying but these are very minor as can be seen in the photos. Some of the other pages may have minor flaws not mentioned here, but they would be very minor as this book has been fairly well maintained. There are photos of the book from multiple angles, publication information, and pages. Please see all photos and feel free to contact me with any questions before purchasing. (Condition: Pre-Owned)
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12000.00 USD 2025-11-20
Disney 2015 Jumbo Pin Tree Animal Kingdom Le 500 Super Rare Fundraising Donate
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Brand New in Original BoxesThis is a fundraiser sale for all 3 Jumbo Pins, we are trying to raise funds to help my daughter buy a house. Buyer will receive the rare 2015 Animal Kingdom Tree of Life Jumbo pin along with 2 others, Epcot and Magic Kingdom Jumbo Pins, and a Thank you letter for contributing. I bought these pins myself at Disney World on first day of release in 2015, they are all Limited Editions of 500.Thank you and hope you have a magical day!We have more Disney merchandise listed in hand and ready to ship. If you don't see what you are looking for, send us an email and we will try to locate it for you as we visit the parks every week and would love to be your personal Disney shopper Guaranteed 100% Authentic Disney Parks Coach Merchandise. Comes from a smoke-free environment. Any questions, please email. Thank You! Shipping in the US is Free International Shipping is 18.95Questions & Answers:Why buy from Rosethorns Brand New Items from Disney Theme Parks, Universal Studios, Sea World or other Florida Theme ParksAlways In Stock & Ready To ShipHighly Rated & Trusted SellerWe combine shipping for the lowest shipping cost possible.We practice being GREEN. We use clean recycled shipping supplies when possible. We recycle and pack in clean boxes and buy clean recycled Styrofoam peanuts from local businesses. We Guarantee our Customer Service and Packing your item for safe shipping to be the BEST! Easy Secure Payments through Paypal - Buy with CONFIDENCE! We are PAYPAL VERIFIED Payment:Easy Secure Payments through Paypal - Buy with CONFIDENCE! We are PAYPAL VERIFIED SHIPPING & INVOICES:All items are shipped within 1 to 3 business days after receiving payment. If you have any questions about this, please contact us. We Offer Friendly International Shipping: We ship through Ebay Global shipping program, so our rates are always low. We never charge a surcharge or handling fee. To save even more contact us so we can ship multiple items in one package.We are happy to combine shipping for up to 3 weeks.RETURN POLICYIf there are any problems once you receive your item, please e-mail us and let us know, we will work hard to take care of any problems.If any items are received defective, damaged, or does not match the description, you may return it for exchange or full refund. 100% Hassle free returns -- Always! We stand by our products and strive to bring you the best quality and selection.All ITEMS are BRAND NEW with tags. If we list anything used or vintage, it will be clearly noted in the description of the item and auction listing.All items come from a SMOKE-FREE environment. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email us.ALL THE STAFF HERE AT ROSETHORNS! ARE VERY HAPPY THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO SHOP WITH US.THANK YOU!YOUR BUSINESS IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE SINCERELY APPRECIATED. (Condition: Brand New)
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10000.00 USD 2025-11-20
1860-1900's (175+) Snow,Thorndyke (Womens Sufferage) signed Document,letter lot!
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God Bless you and have a great week! It would benefit you to read the Biographies on them here! Their are personal letters here. Signed and handwritten from Lucy,Lavinia Snow and Elvira Thorndyke and many others here!
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9999.99 USD 2025-11-20
Rare Prehistorical Triceratops Horn, Dinosaur Fossil, Archeological Artifact
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Size: 30" L x 13.5" W (76.2 cm x 34.3 cm); with the horn extending 14.5" L (36.8 cm); 20" H (50.8 cm) on included custom stand. Whether you are new to art collecting and are just building your collection, or if you have been collecting fine art and antique for years, Modern Artifact has you covered.
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9950.00 USD 2025-11-20
(1904) Texas A&M College Yearbook The Longhorn Antique Aggies (Rare)
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eBay This book is in generally good condition. The hardcover has some scuffing, light fading in spots, and some other signs of shelving, but is in very sturdy and attractive condition. The title page is loose and has some tearing near the binding (this page can be seen from both sides in the photos). It may come free if not handled with care. Page 15/16 is loose but is present and is also available to see in the photos. Page 83 / 84 is unfortunately missing. The rest of the pages are tightly bound and in very good condition. There is little to no age spotting or discoloration, but there may be some very minor fraying present throughout, but this is very minor and not common amongst the pages. There is a penciled notation on the inside front page from when this book previously belonged to a genealogical society, but otherwise, there is no writing, highlighting, or underlining. There are photos of the book from multiple angles, pages, and a close-up of the binding. Please see all photos and feel free to contact me with any questions before purchasing. (Condition: Pre-Owned)
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8900.00 USD 2025-11-20
1890's Berliner Trademark Gramophone In Rare Original Exhibitor's Travel Case
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If you're an uncompromising collector of antique technology, make sure to check out all my listings after you look at this one. I don't think you'll find a better, broader or more balanced assortment of technical antiques anywhere -- hundreds of listings each year, almost all of them featuring eye-popping "gee whiz" gadgetry in exceptional original condition. And don't forget, you can click this link to quickly add and then save me to your favorite seller list and Ebay will automatically send you updates when I put similar new auctions online.Here's a beautiful, all-original Berliner Improved Gramophone in a very uncommon Berliner travel case. The case is brilliantly engineered, with compartments for everything required for an afternoon’s or evening’s worth of entertainment, including space for the horn. There are also 3 threaded rods that can hold dozens of records. Two Berliner records are included Condition is excellent, and the phonograph is in good working order, with a quiet fiber gear and a turntable that runs level.All parts are original — including the Clark Johnson reproducer, the leather horn elbow, and the Berliner record clamp — and all parts are correct.The travel case is in excellent original condition, with a clean exterior, original hardware and fittings, and no damage to the latches or hinges.A very special Berliner outfit, likely never to be offered anywhere again.I'm one ebay's best known and most highly regarded sellers of antique phonographs. I've been selling and shipping them for more than 25 years. When you purchase an antique phonograph from me, you'll receive a phonograph that arrives safely because it's been carefully packed (by me, not by some well intentioned but nonetheless confounded, doe-eyed teenager working at the UPS store who wouldn't know a phonograph from a farm tool), and you'll receive a phonograph that includes thorough but easy to understand set-up and operating instructions, so you won't be left scratching your head, trying to figure out how it works. Sure, you can probably get a lower price from Joe and Janet Barn-Find, but when your "bargain" arrives broken, and without any hint of how it works or how you might be able to put it back together, you'll realize that you really do get exactly what you pay for.MOST INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING VIA FEDEX. (Condition: Pre-Owned)
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8500.00 USD 2025-11-20
Antique Very Rare Hand Made Natural Beast Horn islamic prayer 45 beads 94g R4
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Very super rare at this size These are amazingly beautiful antique Prayer Beads. The it was peeled, carved an imam and separators and polished to make this nice antique unique piece. Tomato Red to yellow with natural striped vines look.
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8500.00 USD 2025-11-20
1936 Schwinn Aerocycle Prewar Rare Bicycle
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1936 Schwinn Aerocycle Prewar Rare Bicycle. What you see is what you get. The fenders are in great condition and only have very minor dents. The frame and fork are straight and in great condition. The delta horn button is there but the horn itself is not. Missing tank, horn and rear light. The rear wheel is a lobdell rim from a later 30s Schwinn. the pedals are incorrect. NO SHIPPING TO PRSHIPS VIA BIKEFLIGHTSOR FREE LOCAL PICKUP
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8000.00 USD 2025-11-20
ANTIQUE VICTOR VI 6 WOOD HORN PHONOGRAPH AND BASE CABINET
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With 16" x 16" solid mahogany cabinet, fluted corner columns with gold-plated capitals, tone arm, crank and Exhibition reproducer. VICTOR VI (6) PHONOGRAPH & BASE CABINET. With a refinished original Victor "spear point" horn, in excellent condition.
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7750.00 USD 2025-11-20
Antique Edison concert Phonograph
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Antique Edison concert  Phonograph in beautiful condition . The phonograph has been fully restored and is in perfect working condition.  Wood signed horn . Model L reproducer . The cabinet is also included with lots  4 min cylinders.  Included is a antique booklet that lists all the amberol cylinders and history , rare book .   You can reach me at 5165101665 if you have questions . Your welcome to pick it up at my house or have a mover pick it up .
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7500.00 USD 2025-11-20
Rare Mahogany Victor 6 Or VI With Speartip Horn Phonograph Antique
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Rare Mahogany Victor 6 Or VI With Speartip Horn. Speartip Mahogany Horn Recreation by Don Gfell. Top of the Line Early Victor VI. Rare Victor 6 with Ball Bearing Turntable. Beautiful Nickel-Plated Motor and Castings.
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6500.00 USD 2025-11-20
? RARE Historic Old Japanese American WWII Nisei BASEBALL Manzanar Trophy, 1944
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This is an Incredible and RARE Historic Old Japanese American WWII Nisei BASEBALL Tule Lake Internment Camp Trophy, awarded to Kiichi Yoshida aka K.H. Yoshida (1889 - 1944.) This baseball trophy was awarded to him, for his role as the early Treasurer of the Tule Lake All-Stars baseball team, at the Tule Lake Japanese Internment Camp in Newell, California. This trophy has a plaque at the top which reads: "1944 - To Mr. K.H. Yoshida." Additionally, there is a bronze plaque affixed to the front which features several old-time baseball players in action. Most importantly, there is also an old, yellowed document affixed to the verso of this piece, which reads: ?????? ???????? a translation of which means Tule Lake Japanese Baseball Team and proceeds to list the names of all of the baseball players on the team. Perhaps you can understand more from this document? Approximately 12 5/8 inches tall x 10 3/8 inches wide x 1 3/4 inches deep. Kiichi Yoshida tragically passed away at the Tule Lake camp soon after receiving this award (There is information about him in photos 19 - 21.) Photos 22 - 24 depict the baseball team at Tule Lake, and photo 24 specifically shows the entire baseball team at Tule Lake in 1945. This rare American Baseball collectible, never to be seen again, is Priced to Sell. This item belongs in a museum. I will entertain Offers by museum institutions, if they can prove their legitimacy and make a Fair Offer. Acquired from an old estate collection in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique items!About this Item:"Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concentration camps during World War II, baseball became a tonic of spiritual renewal for disenfranchised Japanese Americans who played America's pastime while illegally imprisoned. Later, it helped heal resettlement wounds in Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Central Valley and elsewhere. Today, the names of Japanese American ballplayers still resonate as their legacy continues. Mike Lum was the first Japanese American player in the Major Leagues in 1967, Lenn Sakata the first in the World Series in 1983 and Don Wakamatsu the first manager in 2008." (Kerry Yo Nakagawa, Japanese American Baseball in California: A History.)TULE LAKE NATIONAL MONUMENTThe 1944 league baseball season got underway at the Tule Lake Segregation Center on April 19. Project Director Ray R. Best tossed out the first ball. Nearly half of the 17,000 residents of the center were present for the opening gameNewell, CaliforniaNewell California was born out of the War Relocation Authority’s Japanese AmericanInternment and later, Segregation, Center. Once the decision was made tp build acenter on Bureau of Reclamation land in Tule Lake Basin equipment and suppliesarrived on site April, 1942. By June, 1500 Japanese Americans and Japanese alienswere living along with a large contingent of government guards, officials andsupport staff. Ultimately this became a city that housed as many as 18 000internees When the camp was closed in May 1946 a substantial infrastructure wasleft in place: five deep wells, red cinder roads, many surplus buildings, water,sewer, electricity, Southern Pacific Railroad lines and Highway 139. The conceptwas raised of creating a township to serve the new Veteran Homesteaders. Fiveyears later, June 1951, lots in Newell were up for sale by the Bureau of Reclamation.The footprint of the World War II U.S. Army facility named the Tule Lake WarRelocation Center, now referred to as the Tule Lake Internment – Segregation Center,can clearly be seen. Tule lake Municipal Airport, given to Modoc County for 0ne dollarby the Department of Reclamation, features a 3,500-foot paved runway. The Union PacificRailroad Modoc Subdivision tracks run along the west side of town and parallel to SR139.Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge, a unit of Klamath Basin National Wildlife RefugeComplex, is west and northwest of the town. The Peninsula – Castle Rock is managed bythe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service federal reservation Tule Lake Pilgrimage Brings Hundreds to Remember Those Years HereDuring World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in centers: one out of four spent time at Tule Lake Internment –Segregation Center. Designed to hold 10,000 internees within a square mile Tule Lakebegan construction in April 1942. One month later, internees began arriving fromNorthern California, Washington and Oregon. Confinement peaked at 18,789. Nearly30,000 were imprisoned at Tule Lake which remained open until 1946, the last center to close. Tule Lake Internment Camp was the largest and mostinfamous because in July 1943 it became Tule Lake Segregation Center. Interneesfrom other relocation centers who refused to sign a loyalty oath or were sent to Tule Lake.Tule Lake was one of the 10 camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) from May 27, 1942, to March 20, 1946 - the period of Japanese American incarceration where 110,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and communities and incarcerated Tule Lake became the largest of the 10 WRA camps, with a peak incarcerated population of 18,789 people, and a total of 29,840 individuals were incarcerated at Tule Lake over the lifetime of the camp’s operation. It comprised 7,400 acres and contained more than 1,700 structures. Nikkei were housed in more than 1,000 barracks, served by latrines, mess halls, and other communal buildings. The camp also contained a post office, a high school, a hospital, a cemetery, factories, railroad sidings, two sewage treatment plants, hog and chicken farms, water wells, and more than 3,500 acres of irrigated farmland. WRA facilities included 144 administration and support buildings. A prison-like atmosphere and lack of freedom was apparent with the 28 guard towers, multiple security fences, a military police compound, and a high security stockade and jail. Tule Lake was also the primary site where 6,000 Japanese Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship Tule Lake was the last WRA camp to close, remaining in operation seven months after World War II ended. The administration of the center was returned to the Bureau of Reclamation on May 5, 1946. The dismantling of the segregation center occurred quickly. Barrack buildings were given and sold to new homesteaders in the Tule Lake Basin. In the early 1950s, plots of land within the camp boundary were auctioned by the Bureau of Reclamation to establish the town of Newell.Tule Lake survivors and their family members were ostracized and stigmatized as being “disloyal” by the general public and within Japanese American communities long after World War II. Deep rifts continue today among individuals and organizations within the Japanese American community due to the loyalty questionnaire. There is strong consensus among scholars that Tule Lake’s history is the “untold story” of the incarceration during World War IIBaseball in American Concentration Camps: HistoryBaseball season is here again! This favorite of American sports was also a popular pastime in Japanese American concentration camps. Here we delve into that history through an excerpt from Terumi Rafferty Osaki’s encyclopedia entry on sports in World War II concentration camps. Scroll down for a photo essay and additional baseball resources from Densho Content Director Brian Niiya.When Nikkei inmates transferred to the ten War Relocation Authority centers, they brought their sports programs along with them. Baseball and softball remained the premier sports. According to Kerry Yo Nakagawa, despite obstacles unique to each camp, inmates designed and built baseball diamonds mainly during 1942, the first year in the camps. Famed “Dean of the Diamond,” Kenichi Zenimura, with volunteers from throughout the Gila River concentration camp struggled to clear away the ubiquitous sagebrush and then faced the challenge of developing methods to reduce dust on the arid fields of Arizona. In an interview with Nakagawa, actor and former Gila River incarceree Pat Morita remembers “watching a little old brown guy watering down the infield with this huge hose. He used to have his kids dragging the infield and throwing out all the rocks…They worked like mules.” Similar backbreaking work went into baseball fields in Manzanar and Rohwer while at the Jerome center, incarcerees removed tree stumps with dynamite provided by WRA officials Beginning in 1943, incarceration camps hosted many interracial baseball games behind barbed wire. Idaho incarcerees even traveled outside of the center to the state tournament. As early as June 1943, the camp guards of Rohwer participated in softball games against the Nikkei inmates with the military police team led by Stg. Burke, a former semi-pro player, defeating the Japanese American Royal Dukes by a tally of 7-1. From July 25 to 31, 1943, sixteen Nisei players from Hunt/Minidoka incarceration camp made a 150-mile trip to the Fifth Annual Idaho State Semi Professional Tournament at Idaho Falls. In the quarterfinal match, the Nikkei prisoner team played the Hunt Military Police Force, guards from the Minidoka camp, winning by a tally of 14-1. In May and July 1943, Jiggs Yamada and Ship Tamai of Tule Lake put together a game against the Klamath Fall Pelicans and another battling a white semi-pro All Star team from the Oregon League. The Tulean All-Stars won both affairs against the “invading” Caucasian teams by a score of 16-0 and 16-8 in front of nearly 5,000 Nikkei fans. No one doubted the talent of Japanese American players.One person who took great interest in Japanese American baseball players was Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In an open letter to all of the incarceration centers, Rickey stated of the Nisei baseball players: “The fact that these boys are American boys is good enough for the Brooklyn Club.” As part of a radical plan he invited Nisei to participate in open tryouts for the team. In September 1943, three Roy Sayeguchi and Henry Honda, and third basemen Ichi the tryouts in front of scout George Sisler in Ogden, Utah. None made the team.The 1944 baseball season reflected the loosening of restrictions on Nikkei inmates deemed “loyal” to the U.S. Under the leadership of Zenimura, a series of inter-camp games took place in the summer and fall. The first series took place in June 1944 featuring an All-Star team from Poston (Arizona) that traveled 200 miles to Gila River. Ironically, when prisoners donned baseball uniforms, the WRA provided these “enemy aliens” a bus to travel the long distances between centers to the inter-camp games as though the baseball uniform conveyed greater acceptance as part of American culture.The six game series between the two camps ended with a series split. Members from the Poston group thanked the Gila River center before they left for their journey back to their camp. Gila River then welcomed the Amache players who trekked 900 miles from Colorado to play a series of baseball games. Gila River reciprocated and made the journey to Amache later in the season. Zenimura worked on a schedule for play and in the end, Gila River swept Amache in all eight games they played at each center. Most members of the All-Star team from Amache camp that participated in this series were bound for service in the United States Army’s segregated all-Nikkei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In September 1944, another inter-camp series took place between the Heart Mountain All-Star and the Gila River Internees. The Gila River team led by Zenimura made an 1,170-mile pilgrimage to Heart Mountain (Wyoming) to play thirteen games.Baseball boosted Japanese Americans during internment. A field in the desert may retell the story.Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps and lost everything during the war. But baseball became a form of expression.In a desolate valley of Southern California’s high desert, an act of restoration is unfolding that befits the resolve of the intended honorees.With every prickly chunk of cleared tumbleweed, every smoothing of soil, every commitment of time and materials and resources, baseball is getting closer to a return to Manzanar, one of 10 internment camps where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.It remains one of the USA's national shames: More than 120,000 of its citizens ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sell their belongings, abandon their homes and report to 10 camps spread almost exclusively throughout grim and remote locales in the American West between 1942 and 1945, as World War II raged on two fronts.For the oppressors, it’s a black mark in history perhaps not equal but akin to the removal of native peoples, slavery and Jim Crow laws, which were still decades from eradication.And for the oppressed, it remains a shameful subject for which many are reluctant to discuss.Yet it was baseball that offered both a proving ground and a modicum of dignity for citizens detained in camps.And it is baseball that organizers hope sparks a renewed conversation around this era.“We are reenacting,” says Dan Kwong, a performance artist and longtime baseball player whose mother was interned at Manzanar, “a piece of our history ”Kwong a 69-year-old Santa Monica resident, has volunteered at Manzanar since 2009, and answered a call last May for volunteers to help clear the area marking the camp’s baseball diamond during internment. It was then that Kwong, who still plays in Japanese American leagues in California, was struck by the vision of baseball once again unfolding on this patch of dirt framed by the Inyo Mountains.One year later, the vision is nearing reality: Thanks to significant contributions from design and construction firms, cooperation from the National Park Service and an ongoing fundraiser, Kwong hopes to break ground on the ballfield by June.A September doubleheader is planned, including an all-star game pitting players from Japanese American teams hailing from the state’s north and south, a fitting tribute to those still burgeoning but rarely discussed leagues in the country’s most populous state.The all-stars plan to wear uniforms designed by K&P Weaver, which specializes in vintage baseball garb. A Hollywood props house, History For Hire, has opened up its trove of ancient baseball gear previously seen in Field of Dreams, A League Of Their Own, and other baseball films.It is both a recognition of the resolve of the imprisoned who kept the game alive and an ode to baseball lineage Baseball before internmentIn a more just world, the arc of Japanese American baseball would be unfettered by internment.The game was largely introduced to Japan in the late 19th century by Horace Wilson, a Maine librarian and Civil War veteran who eventually taught English at Tokyo University. The game’s popularity both in Japan and the USA boomed just as a significant number of Japanese immigrated stateside.One of those immigrants was Kenichi Zenimura, now known as the “Father of Japanese American Baseball.” He eventually settled in Fresno, California, and spearheaded barnstorming tours of Japan with his Fresno Athletic Club team.In 1927, he competed alongside and against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig when the New York Yankees legends’ barnstorming tour came to Fresno; eventually, Zenimura helped set the stage for the future Hall of Famers to tour Japan.Just like Black people and Latinos, Asian American players were not welcome in Major League Baseball, reduced to exhibitions and playing against Negro League teams – both stateside and in Japan.“They had the five tools and the desire, but didn’t get the opportunity,” says Kerry Yo Nakagawa, director of the non-profit Nisei Baseball Research project. His uncle, Johnny Nakagawa, is pictured in a famous portrait alongside Ruth and Gehrig from their Fresno exhibition “It wasn’t so much who won or lost, but rather that American ambassadors banned from baseball in America became amazing ambassadors in Japan ”Nakagawa’s family arc was typical. His grandfather immigrated from Hiroshima to Hawaii and moved to Fresno in 1886 to start a grape farm. Nakagawa’s father was born in 1905, part of the Nisei generation, or children born to Japanese immigrants in their new country.Soon, baseball would help define the generation. Both the grassroots and high-profile events seeded a bustling Japanese American baseball movement in California, with teams in more populous areas like San Jose, San Pedro and the San Fernando Valley, along with clubs in migrant towns far smaller on the map – Lodi, Reedley, Florin“Every little Podunk farm town,” notes Kwong, “had a baseball team.”Soon, they would have to play behind barbed wire Internment scattered families, friends and ballplayers from California to Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Arkansas. Zenimura was sent to Arizona’s Gila River camp, far from his Fresno home, but the far-flung locale did not diminish his enterprising spirit.Zenimura soon had a baseball field up and running, and eventually, a 32-team league that competed against each other and also area teams.Some teams had virtually their entire rosters intact within the camps. The San Fernando Aces, well-seasoned from their semi-pro tours of California, dominated opponents at Manzanar.In this setting, baseball represented a paradox: An entire people held against their will, yet allowed to construct fields, obtain equipment and compete, sometimes in front of hundreds standing or crouched in the dirt surrounding the diamond.“I think the government looked at it like, ‘Oh, this will be good for morale,’” says Kwong. “When the government started these camps, they had no exit strategy. It was like, ‘What are we going to do with these people?’ Nobody knew how long they were going to be there. Are we here for the rest of our lives ’“Nobody knew.“There was a sense within the communities of, ‘OK, we’re going to have to make this our world.’ And they began to make community. So they’re building gardens, making baseball fields, teaching classes in arts and crafts. Everything to try and make life as livable as possible ”That included Kwong’s mother, Momo Nagano, who played softball at Manzanar. She died in 2010; Kwong’s 102-year-old aunt interned at Manzanar is still alive.All were subject to the xenophobia and rampant racism that screamed from 50-point newspaper headlines or signs indicating their kind were not welcome as employees or patrons of certain businesses Internment was simply the ultimate byproduct of this sentiment; baseball under the gaze of a guard tower was a small part of reclaiming that personhood “To play baseball was also this expression of American-ness: ‘Yes, we are Americans, even if you don’t think we are,’” says Kwong. “And we will participate in this quintessential piece of American culture. It was a bit of a statement, in that regard.“It was a way to experience a piece of their pre-war lives. They lost everything. But they were allowed to keep baseball? OK. So, it really had a very profound symbolic meaning as well as something to do.”And there was talent behind the barbed wire.Satoshi “Fibber” Hirayama stood just 5-3 and weighed 140 pounds, but after surviving internment in Poston, Arizona, he went on to become an all-conference football and baseball player at Fresno State, inducted into their athletics hall of fame.Hirayama would go on to play for the Hiroshima Carp and later scout and coach for the Japanese club. It was in the Carp’s camp in the Dominican where he spotted and helped develop Alfonso Soriano, who would go on to play in Japan and become a seven-time All-Star for the Yankees, Rangers, Nationals and Cubs.Some families were divided by circumstance. Rosie Kikuuchi was perhaps the most talented softball player at Manzanar, good enough to play, and flourish, with the men in baseball games. Yet since her husband, Jack, had enlisted in the Army before internment, he avoided internment and was able to play on an Army all-star team that defeated the Chicago Cubs in an exhibition.For Japanese Americans in the Central Valley, Highway 99 served as a dividing line. Those west of the highway were sent to Jerome, Arkansas, and those east of 99, such as Zenimura, were sent to Gila Bend Nakagawa’s grandmother never made it back from Arkansas, passing away in the camp there.Within the camps, baseball helped bond generations whose hierarchy was fracturing. It was the Nisei – or first generation American-born – youth who were tasked with communicating with guards and camp officials, not the monolingual elders.The universal language of the sport would endure Baseball became an elixir'After the war, the internment camps were hastily dissembled, and for decades, the lone remnants at Manzanar were an auditorium converted to a county storage space and two stone sentry huts marking the entrance.But as it earned National Historic Site designation and fell under the auspices of the National Park Service, Manzanar has gradually been restored in the past two decades, with a guard tower, a mess hall and a school added.If all goes well, the ballfield will serve as another testament beyond the commemorative marker.Its remote locale – a nearly four-hour drive from Los Angeles, and closer to Death Valley than anything resembling a metropolitan area – means precious little baseball may be played there in years to come. Yet its existence should spark conversations that might have never happened.The planned September twinbill – the first game pitting Kwong’s Li’l Tokio Giants against the Lodi JACL Templars, who began play in 1915 – is part of a larger commemoration that includes performance-art pieces.The educational component is unspoken, but powerful. Kwong and Nakagawa feel that heaviness when they visit.“You cannot escape that wind, from morning to night,” says Nakagawa. “These Americans, you can imagine their civil liberties taken from them, their homes, their farms, their businesses, and living at the base of the mountains “Baseball became an elixir, a normalcy."After a group of three dozen volunteers helped Kwong remove tumbleweeds at the site and later thanked him for the opportunity to perform the thorny task. Kwong notes that the "Silent Generation" label applies to those interned during the war, as well; he says his mother was an outlier, that she was a natural storyteller.But there are many gaps in how the word was passed from camp detainees to prior generations. Now, a gaggle of twentysomething Japanese American ballplayers may just have a life-changing experience on their journey to play a game.“I had one manager,” says Kwong, “who said, ‘You know, I had a hard time getting my guys interested. They were like, ‘We have to drive all the way out to the desert ’“I’m like, ‘Yeah dude, that’s where the government put your grandparents. It was not a place chosen for its convenience ’“I’m pretty confident that any of these young guys who play in these games, it’s going to change their consciousness ”Nakagawa agrees.“It will be a full circle situation,” he says. “It’s so beautiful to see the circle closed in September.”
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UP FOR AUCTION IS BY ALL ACCOUNTS ONE OF THE RAREST FBI POSTERS EVER ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. IT IS THAT OF ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS IN MAFIA HISTORY, ARTHUR FLEGENHEIMER, BETTER KNOWN AS DUTCH SCHULTZ.Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901 – October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Schultz made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket. Schultz's rackets were weakened by two tax evasion trials led by prosecutor Thomas Dewey, and also threatened by fellow mobster Lucky Luciano. Schultz asked the Commission for permission to kill Dewey, in an attempt to avert his conviction, which they refused. When Schultz disobeyed them and made an attempt to kill Dewey, the Commission ordered his murder in 1935. Schultz was shot at a restaurant in Newark and died the next day. WITHOUT QUESTION, ONE OF THE RAREST, AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER MAFIA WANTED POSTER IN EXISTENCE. YOU'LL FIND THIS EXACT POSTER ON DISPLAY AT THE LAS VEGAS MOB MUSEUM IN NEVADA YOU CANNOT BUY IT ANYWHERE ONLINE. IT SIMPLY DOESN'T EXIST. THIS EXCEPTIONALLY RARE DUTCH SCHULTZ FBI WANTED POSTER WAS ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ON NOVEMBER 19TH, 1934. IT HAS BEEN CAREFULLY PRESERVED IN AN ARCHIVAL BINDER FOR OVER 89 YEARS. IT COMES TO YOU AS IMMACULATE AND PRISTINE AS YOU SEE HERE IN THE PHOTOS PROVIDED. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO TRULY OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY.PLEASE MAKE US YOUR BEST OFFER, WE WILL ACCEPT ANY REASONABLE OFFER.Early lifeArthur Simon Flegenheimer was born on August 6, 1901, to German Jewish immigrants Herman and Emma (Neu) Flegenheimer, who had married in Manhattan on November 10, 1900. He had a younger sister, Helen, born in 1904. Herman Flegenheimer apparently abandoned his family, and Emma is listed as divorced in the 1910 US Census. (In her 1932 petition for U.S. citizenship, however, she wrote that her husband had died in 1910–though it is unclear whether he died before or after the 1910 US Census.) The event traumatized young Flegenheimer, who spent the rest of his life denying that his father had abandoned his family Flegenheimer dropped out of school in the eighth grade to help support himself and his mother. He worked as a feeder and pressman for the Clark Loose Leaf Company, Caxton Press, American Express, and Schultz Trucking in the Bronx between 1916 and 1919.Criminal beginningsWhen Flegenheimer began working at a neighborhood night club owned by a small-time mobster, he started robbing craps games before turning to burglary. Eventually he was caught breaking into an apartment and sent to the prison on Blackwell's Island (now called Roosevelt Island). Flegenheimer Schultz s mugshot, aged 18, was published in the 2010 book New York City Gangland. He proved to be such an unmanageable prisoner that he was transferred to a work farm in Westhampton, Long Island. After he was recaptured following an escape, he had an extra two months added to his sentence Flegenheimer was released on parole on December 8, 1920, and went back to work at Schultz Trucking. With the enactment of the Volstead Act and the start of Prohibition in the United States, the shipping company began smuggling liquor and beer into New York City from Canada. This led Flegenheimer to start associating with known criminals. It was also during this time that Flegenheimer became better known as "Dutch" Schultz. Following a disagreement, he left Schultz Trucking and went to work for their Italian competitors Criminal the mid-1920s, Schultz had begun work as a bouncer at the Hub Social Club, a small speakeasy in the Bronx owned by a gangster named Joey Noe. Noe was impressed with Schultz's ruthlessness and reputation for brutality when he lost his temper, and he made him a partner. Together they soon opened more illegal drinking joints around the Bronx. Using their own trucks to reduce high delivery costs, they brought in beer made by Frankie Dunn, a brewer in Union City, New Jersey. Schultz often rode shotgun to guard the trucks from hijackers Schultz and Noe soon had to deal with the brothers John and Joe Rock, who were already running a bootlegging operation in the Bronx. Initially the brothers refused to buy beer from Noe and Schultz, but eventually John, the elder brother, agreed to cooperate; however, his younger brother Joe refused. One night the Noe-Schultz gang kidnapped Joe, beat him and hung him by his thumbs from a meat hook. They then allegedly wrapped a gauze bandage smeared with discharge from a gonorrhea infection over his eyes. His family reportedly paid $35,000 for his release. Shortly after his return, he went blind. From then on, the Noe-Schultz gang met little opposition as they expanded across the entire Bronx. Bootlegging during Prohibition made Schultz very wealthy.Gang warsThe Noe-Schultz operation, which had begun to flourish in the Bronx, soon became the only gang able to rival the network of Italian crime syndicates that became the Mafia's Five Families. When the gang expanded from the Bronx over to Manhattan's Upper West Side and the neighborhoods of Washington Heights, Yorkville and Harlem, they moved their headquarters to East 149th Street in The Bronx. However, this brazen move led to a bootleg war with New York's Irish Mob, led by Jack "Legs" Diamond.In the early hours of October 16, 1928, Noe was shot several times outside the Chateau Madrid, a speakeasy at 231 West 54th. Although seriously wounded, he managed to return fire. A blue Cadillac was seen hitting some parked cars and losing one of its doors before speeding away. When police found the car an hour later, they discovered the body of a Louis Weinberg (no relation to Schultz gang members Abraham "Bo" Weinberg and George Weinberg) in the back seat. Noe's wounds became infected and he died on November 21. Schultz was left angry and distraught by the loss of his friend and mentor Retaliation started a few weeks later when Arnold Rothstein, a kingpin in the Jewish mob, was found fatally shot near the service entrance to the Park Central Hotel on November 6, 1928. Although George "Hump" McManus supposedly killed Rothstein over a bad gambling debt, Schultz is believed to have ordered the killing in retribution for Noe's death. This theory is supported by the fact that the first person McManus rang after the killing was Schultz's attorney, Dixie Davis. Schultz's trusted lieutenant, Bo Weinberg, then picked up McManus and drove him away from the murder scene. McManus was later cleared of the killing.On October 12, 1930, Legs Diamond was shot and wounded at the Hotel Monticello on Manhattan's West Side. Two gunmen forced their way into Diamond's room and shot him five times before fleeing. Still in his pajamas, Diamond staggered into the hallway and collapsed. When asked later by the New York Police Commissioner how he managed to walk out of the room, Diamond said he drank two shots of whiskey first. Diamond was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan, where he eventually recovered. On December 30, 1930, Diamond was discharged from Polyclinic. During his absence, his gang was forced to leave the city. When he returned home, Diamond began carving out a new territory for himself in Albany. He was killed in a cheap Albany rooming house at 67 Dove Street by two gunmen in December 1931.Schultz also had to deal with internecine conflicts within his own gang. In 1930, one of Schultz's enforcers, Vincent Coll, demanded to be made an equal partner. This was because Schultz gang members received a flat salary instead of the customary percentage from the take—a unique arrangement compared to other major gangs in organized crime. When Schultz refused, Coll formed his own crew with the ultimate goal of murdering Schultz and taking over his territory. In the bloody gang war that followed, Coll lost his older brother Pete and earned the nickname "Mad Dog" from the press after a child was killed during a botched assassination attempt committed by his gang. In February 1932, Coll was lured into a trap. While he was taking a call in a drugstore phone booth, gunmen entered the store and machine-gunned him to death. The killers may have included Edward "Fats" McCarthy and the brothers Bo and George Weinberg RacketeerWith the end of Prohibition, Dutch Schultz needed to find new sources of income. His answer came with Otto "Abbadabba" Berman and the Harlem numbers racket. The numbers racket, the forerunner of "Pick 3" lotteries, required players to choose three numbers, which were then derived from the last number before the decimal in the handle (total amount bet) taken daily at Belmont Park. Berman was a middle-aged accountant and math whiz who helped Schultz fix this racket. In a matter of seconds, Berman could mentally calculate the minimum amount of money Schultz needed to bet at the track to alter the odds at the last minute. This strategy ensured that Schultz always controlled which numbers won, guaranteeing a larger number of losers in Harlem and a multimillion dollar a month tax-free income for Schultz. Berman was reportedly paid $10,000 a week (equivalent to $175,000 in 2022).Along with the policy rackets, Schultz began extorting New York restaurant owners and workers. Schultz, working through a hulking gangster named Jules Modgilewsky, also known as Julie Martin, made deals with the leaders of Waiters Local 16 and Cafeteria Workers Local 302 to extort money by forcing restaurant owners to join the Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Owners Association, an employer association that Schultz had founded. Those who refused to join the Association were faced with exorbitant wage demands from the unions, followed by strikes and stink bomb attacks. The Metropolitan Association then stepped in to arrange a settlement of the strike with a sweetheart contract for low wages contingent on the employer joining the Association. Martin Modgilewsky successfully extracted thousands of dollars of tributes and "dues" from the terrorized restaurant owners for Schultz.During Schultz's tax trial (see below) he began to suspect that Martin was skimming from the shakedown operation; Schultz had recently discovered a $70,000 disparity in the books. On the evening of March 2, 1935, Schultz invited Martin to a meeting at the Harmony Hotel in Cohoes, New York. At the meeting, at which chief enforcer Bo Weinberg and mob lawyer Dixie Davis were also present, Martin belligerently denied Schultz's charges and began arguing with him. Both men were drinking heavily as the argument continued, and Schultz sucker-punched Martin. Finally, Martin admitted that he had taken $20,000, which he believed he was "entitled to" anyway. Dixie Davis related what happened next:Dutch Schultz was ugly; he had been drinking and suddenly he had his gun out. Schultz wore his pistol under his vest, tucked inside his pants, right against his belly. One jerk at his vest and he had it in his hand. All in the same quick motion he swung it up, stuck it in Jules Martin's mouth and pulled the trigger. It was as simple and undramatic as that—just one quick motion of the hand. Dutch Schultz did that murder just as casually as if he were picking his teeth.As Martin contorted on the floor, Schultz apologized to Davis for killing someone in front of him. When Davis later read a newspaper story about Martin's murder, he was shocked to find out that the body was found on a snow bank with a dozen stab wounds to the chest. When Davis asked about this, Schultz replied, deadpan, "I cut his heart out."Trials for tax evasionIn the early 1930s, U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey had set his sights on convicting Schultz for non-payment of federal taxes. Schultz was indicted in New York in January 1933 and became a fugitive. (Dewey subsequently left the Justice Department, first for private practice, then as a state-appointed Special Prosecutor and D.A.) Schultz surrendered in Albany, New York, in November 1934. This was part of his plan to have his trials moved from New York City to upstate. His first tax evasion trial, in Syracuse, ended in a hung jury, with many speculating he'd bribed the jurors. He would face retrial in Malone, New York.With the case going to a second trial, Schultz quickly set about presenting himself to the townspeople of Malone as a country squire and good citizen. He donated cash to local businesses, gave toys to sick children, and performed other charitable deeds. The strategy worked, as he was acquitted of tax evasion in late summer 1935. The mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia, was so outraged at the verdict that he issued an order that Schultz should be arrested on sight should he return to the city. As a result, Schultz was forced to relocate his base of operations across the Hudson River to Newark AssassinationBetrayalAs the defense costs to fight his tax case mounted, Schultz had found it necessary to reduce the commission he paid to those running his policy rackets to bolster what he called the "Arthur Flegenheimer Defense Fund." That tactic angered the runners and the games' controllers, who, despite being threatened with violence for showing any dissent, hired a hall, held a mass protest meeting, and declared a strike of sorts. Very quickly the cash flow dried up, and Schultz was forced to back down, which permanently damaged the relationship between his gang and their associates.Bo Weinberg, Schultz's chief lieutenant, was so concerned about the amount of money that Schultz was taking from the rackets to fund his legal defense that he sought advice from New Jersey mob boss Longy Zwillman, who put him in touch with the Sicilian-born gangster Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. The deal that Weinberg wanted was to retain a percentage and keep overall control of the Schultz gang. However, Luciano planned to break up the gang's rackets and territory among his own associates once Schultz was convicted of tax evasion. Believing that a guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion at the second trial, Luciano and his allies implemented their plan to take control. Their plan met little resistance because of the ongoing bad feelings over the attempted pay cuts and the support of Weinberg However after Schultz was acquitted, he quickly arranged a meeting with Luciano through the Commission to clarify the situation. Luciano explained to Schultz that they were just "looking after the shop" while he was away to ensure that everything ran smoothly and that full control of his rackets would be returned to Schultz once the heat died down. Publicly, Schultz was forced to accept that version of events because of the ongoing attention from law enforcement agencies and Thomas Dewey, now a Special Prosecutor appointed by LaGuardia. A month after his acquittal, his own chief lieutenant Bo Weinberg was never seen again after he had walked out of a midtown Manhattan nightclub Schultz had proposed to the National Crime Syndicate, a confederation of mobsters, that Dewey be murdered. Luciano argued that a Dewey assassination would precipitate a massive law enforcement crackdown. The Commission later voted unanimously against the proposal. An enraged Schultz said he would kill Dewey anyway and walked out of the meeting. The Murder, Inc. leader Albert Anastasia approached Luciano with information that Schultz had asked him to stake out Dewey's apartment building on Fifth Avenue. Upon hearing the news, the Commission held a discreet meeting to discuss the matter. After six hours of deliberations, the Commission ordered Louis Buchalter to eliminate "The Dutchman ShootingSchultz was shot on October 23, 1935, while he was at the Palace Chop House restaurant at 12 East Park Street in Newark, New Jersey, with Otto Berman, his accountant; Abe Landau, his new chief lieutenant; and his personal bodyguard, Bernard "Lulu" Rosenkrantz. While Schultz was in the bathroom, two Murder, Inc. hitmen named Charles "The Bug" Workman and Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss entered the establishment Workman and Weiss entered the back room of the restaurant, where they fired numerous times at the Schultz gang members. Berman collapsed immediately after he was shot. Landau's carotid artery was severed by a bullet passing through his neck, and Rosenkrantz was hit repeatedly at point-blank range. Nevertheless, despite their injuries, both gangsters rose to their feet, returned fire, and drove the assassins out of the restaurant. Weiss jumped into the getaway car and ordered the driver to abandon Workman. Landau chased Workman out of the bar and emptied his pistol at him but missed. After Workman had fled on foot, Landau finally collapsed onto a nearby trash can.Witnesses say Schultz staggered out of the bathroom, clutching his side, and sat at his table. He called for anyone who could hear him to get an ambulance. Rosenkrantz rose to his feet and demanded that the barman, who had hidden during the shootout, give him some change. Rosenkrantz called for an ambulance before he lost consciousness When the first ambulance arrived, medics determined Landau and Rosenkrantz were the most seriously wounded and needed to be taken immediately to Newark City Hospital. A second ambulance was called to take Schultz and Berman. Berman was unconscious, but Schultz was drifting in and out of lucidity, as police attempted to comfort him and get information. Because the medics had no pain relievers, Schultz was given brandy to relieve his suffering. When a second ambulance arrived from Newark City Hospital, Schultz gave an intern in the ambulance $3,000 in cash because he thought he was dying and said that it was not going to do him any good where he was going. After surgery, when it looked as if Schultz might live, the intern was so worried that Schultz would come back for his cash that he handed in the money. Landau and Rosenkrantz refused to say anything to the police until Schultz had given them permission after he had arrived in the second ambulance. Even then, they provided the police with only minimal information.At 2:20 am, Otto Berman, the oldest and least physically fit of the four men, was the first to die. Abe Landau died of exsanguination at 6 am. When Rosenkrantz was taken into surgery, the surgeons were so incredulous that Rosenkrantz was still alive despite his blood loss and ballistic trauma that they were unsure of how to treat him. He eventually died from his injuries 29 hours after the shooting DeathSchultz received the last rites from a Catholic priest at his request just before he went into surgery. He reportedly believed Jesus enabled him to beat an indictment and had promised to convert. He lingered for almost one day, speaking in various states of lucidity with his wife, mother, a priest, police, and hospital staff, before he died of peritonitis on October 24, 1935.Schultz was permitted interment in the Roman Catholic Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, but at the request of his Orthodox Jewish mother, Schultz's body was draped with a talit, a traditional Jewish prayer shawl.In 1941, Charles Workman was convicted of killing Schultz. The building that housed the Palace Chop House was torn down in 2008.Final words and legacyThe headstone of Dutch Schultz in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New YorkSchultz's last words were a strange stream of consciousness babble spoken in his hospital bed to police officers who attempted to calm him and question him for useful information. Although the police were unable to extract anything coherent from Schultz, his rambling was fully transcribed by a police stenographer. These include:A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kim.You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it.Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy Schultz s last words have inspired a number of writers to devote works related to them. Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs published a screenplay in novel form titled The Last Words of Dutch Schultz in the early 1970s, while Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson connected Schultz's words to a global Illuminati related conspiracy, making them a major part of 1975's The Illuminatus! Trilogy. (In Wilson's and Shea's story, Schultz's ramblings are a coded message.) In his 1960 anthology Parodies, Dwight Macdonald presents Schultz's last words as a parody of Gertrude Stein. In E. L. Doctorow's novel Billy Bathgate, the title character uses clues from Schultz's deathbed ramblings to locate his hidden money.Although Schultz's gang was meant to be crippled, several of his associates survived the night. Martin "Marty" Krompier, whom Schultz left in charge of his Manhattan interests while he hid in New Jersey, survived an assassination attempt the same night as the shootings at the Palace Chop House. No apparent attempt was made on the life of Irish-American mobster John M. Dunn, who later became the brother-in-law of mobster Edward J. McGrath and a powerful member of the Hell's Kitchen Irish mob.After Schultz's death, it was discovered that he and his wife had never gone through an official marriage ceremony, and the possible existence of another wife emerged with the discovery of letters and pictures of another woman and children among his effects at the hotel where he was staying in Newark. This was never resolved, as his common-law wife refused to talk about it and the mystery woman never came forward. Two other women also called at the morgue to receive his effects, but their identities were never established. Though he was estimated to be worth $7 million when he died, no trace of the money was ever found.Shortly before his death, fearing that he would be incarcerated as a result of Dewey's efforts, Schultz commissioned the construction of a special airtight and waterproof safe into which he placed $7 million in cash and bonds (equivalent to $149,000,000 in 2022). Schultz and Rosenkrantz then drove the safe to an undisclosed location somewhere in upstate New York and buried it. At the time of his death, the safe was still interred; as no evidence existed to indicate that either Schultz or Rosenkrantz had ever revealed the location of the safe to anyone, the exact place where the safe was buried died with them. Schultz's enemies are said to have spent the remainder of their lives searching for the safe. As the safe has never been recovered, treasure hunters have annually returned to look for it in the Catskills. One such meeting became the documentary film Digging for Dutch: The Search for the Lost Treasure of Dutch Schultz.In popular cultureSeveral actors have portrayed Dutch Schultz in film and television: Vic Morrow in Portrait of a Mobster (1961), Vincent Gardenia in Mad Dog Coll (1961), James Remar in The Cotton Club (1984), Dustin Hoffman in Billy Bathgate (1991), Lance Henriksen in The Outfit (1993), and Tim Roth in Hoodlum (1997).On television, in the 1959 The Untouchables episodes "Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll", "The Dutch Schultz Story" and "Jack 'Legs' Diamond", Schultz was played by Lawrence Dobkin. In the 1993–1994 series The Untouchables, he was portrayed by Si Osborne in the 1993 episode "Attack on New York".On November 18, 2020, a PBS Secrets of the Dead episode entitled "Gangster's Gold" premiered which detailed the investigation and the hunt for Schultz's lost treasure. In July 2022, an episode of Expedition Unknown, titled "The Bootlegger's Millions", focused on Schultz and his treasure.
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Case XX 2010 Tang Stamp 35 Knife Set #74 Of 200 Sets Ever Made Rare Set In Case
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This Set of Case XX Tang Stamp Knives has 35 Knives in it,and is Limited to 200 Sets this Being #74 as Each Knife Blade has a #74 on it. In Original Wood Display Case from WR Case Bradford Pa. Case XX Tang Stamp Commemorative Set Tang Stamp Premier 35 pc Knife Set includes Case Bradford Era 1905-1920 Molasses Saw Bone Elephant’s Toe (6250 SS) ,Red Stag Large Texas Toothpick (R510098 SS),Rogers Jigged Old Red Bone Whittler (6383WH SS), Paula Mini Copperhead (82109X SS), Second Cut Jigged Black Bone Peanut (6220 SS), Case Tested Era 1920-1940 Walnut Saw Bone Large Swell Center Jack (C61050 SS),Burnt Stag Bareheaded Slimline Trapper (51048 SS),Rogers Jiggered Old Red Bone Razor (62005RAZ SS) Abalone Humpback Stockman (83046 SS),Standard Jiggered Goldenrod Bone Small Texas Toothpick (610096 SS), Case XX Era 1940-1964 Pale Honey Brown Saw Bone Large Saddlehorn (62100 SS),Corn Cob Jigged Brown Bone Large Stockman (6375 SS),Peach Seed Jigged Hunter Green Bone Muskrat (Muskrat SS),Vintage Stag Mini CopperLock R (V51749L SS), Himalayan Rams Horn Eisenhower (0EX263 SS) Case XX USA Era 1965-1969 Mediterranean Blue Saw Bone Folding Hunter (6265 SS) Second Cut Stag r Stockman (5347 SS), Rogers Jigged Dark Molasses Bone Canoe (62131 SS),Abalone Mini Trapper (8207 SS),Standard Jigged Tested Red Bone Cheetah Cub r (611 1/2 L SS), Case “Dot” Era 1970-1999 Dark Antique Saw Bone Clasp (6172 SS), SS), Genuine Mother-Of-Pearl Medium Stockman(8318 SS),Smooth Bermuda Green Bone Medium Congress (64052 SS), Red Stag Barlow (R52009 1/2 SS), Corn Cob Jigged Blue Lagoon Bone Tiny Trapper (62154 SS), Case “Dot’s-X,s Era 2000-2009 Black Saw Bone Grand Daddy Barlow(6143 SS), Rogers Corn Cob Jigged Kentucky Bluegrass Bone Trapper (6254 SS) XX Prime Stag RussLock r (51953L SS), Peach Seed Jigged Burnt Oatmeal Bone Saddlehorn (TB62165 SS), Second Cut Jiggered Cabernet Bone Pocket Hunter (TH62165 SS), Case X’s and Dot’s Era (2010-2019 Emerald Green Saw Bone Cigar Whittler (6391WH SS), Standard Jiggered Sunburst Bone TrapperLock (6154L SS), Mammoth Ivory Sway Back Gent (TBI1117 SS), Standard Jigged Jade Bone Small Gunstock (6215 SS), Himalayan Rams Horn Small Stockman (EX333 SS), This Is A 2010 Year Knife Set #74 of Only 200 Made Photos Are From Actual Knife Set. Great Collector’s Set You Could Drive A Set Of Steel Belted Tires Off Your Truck Looking For Another Great Gift For The Knife Collector In Your Life. This is the largest limited Edition Set Case Makes. Will Ship Priority Mail with Insurance and Signature. (Condition: Brand New)
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Case XX 2010 Tang Stamp 35 Knife Set #74 Of 200 Sets Ever Made Rare Set In Case
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eBay This Set of Case XX Tang Stamp Knives has 35 Knives in it,and is Limited to 200 Sets this Being #74 as Each Knife Blade has a #74 on it. In Original Wood Display Case from WR Case Bradford Pa. Case XX Tang Stamp Commemorative Set Tang Stamp Premier 35 pc Knife Set includes Case Bradford Era 1905-1920 Molasses Saw Bone Elephant’s Toe (6250 SS) ,Red Stag Large Texas Toothpick (R510098 SS),Rogers Jigged Old Red Bone Whittler (6383WH SS), Paula Mini Copperhead (82109X SS), Second Cut Jigged Black Bone Peanut (6220 SS), Case Tested Era 1920-1940 Walnut Saw Bone Large Swell Center Jack (C61050 SS),Burnt Stag Bareheaded Slimline Trapper (51048 SS),Rogers Jiggered Old Red Bone Razor (62005RAZ SS) Abalone Humpback Stockman (83046 SS),Standard Jiggered Goldenrod Bone Small Texas Toothpick (610096 SS), Case XX Era 1940-1964 Pale Honey Brown Saw Bone Large Saddlehorn (62100 SS),Corn Cob Jigged Brown Bone Large Stockman (6375 SS),Peach Seed Jigged Hunter Green Bone Muskrat (Muskrat SS),Vintage Stag Mini CopperLock R (V51749L SS), Himalayan Rams Horn Eisenhower (0EX263 SS) Case XX USA Era 1965-1969 Mediterranean Blue Saw Bone Folding Hunter (6265 SS) Second Cut Stag r Stockman (5347 SS), Rogers Jigged Dark Molasses Bone Canoe (62131 SS),Abalone Mini Trapper (8207 SS),Standard Jigged Tested Red Bone Cheetah Cub r (611 1/2 L SS), Case “Dot” Era 1970-1999 Dark Antique Saw Bone Clasp (6172 SS), SS), Genuine Mother-Of-Pearl Medium Stockman(8318 SS),Smooth Bermuda Green Bone Medium Congress (64052 SS), Red Stag Barlow (R52009 1/2 SS), Corn Cob Jigged Blue Lagoon Bone Tiny Trapper (62154 SS), Case “Dot’s-X,s Era 2000-2009 Black Saw Bone Grand Daddy Barlow(6143 SS), Rogers Corn Cob Jigged Kentucky Bluegrass Bone Trapper (6254 SS) XX Prime Stag RussLock r (51953L SS), Peach Seed Jigged Burnt Oatmeal Bone Saddlehorn (TB62165 SS), Second Cut Jiggered Cabernet Bone Pocket Hunter (TH62165 SS), Case X’s and Dot’s Era (2010-2019 Emerald Green Saw Bone Cigar Whittler (6391WH SS), Standard Jiggered Sunburst Bone TrapperLock (6154L SS), Mammoth Ivory Sway Back Gent (TBI1117 SS), Standard Jigged Jade Bone Small Gunstock (6215 SS), Himalayan Rams Horn Small Stockman (EX333 SS), This Is A 2010 Year Knife Set #74 of Only 200 Made Photos Are From Actual Knife Set. Great Collector’s Set You Could Drive A Set Of Steel Belted Tires Off Your Truck Looking For Another Great Gift For The Knife Collector In Your Life. This is the largest limited Edition Set Case Makes. Will Ship with Insurance. (Condition: Brand New)
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Rare Victor D Phonograph with Speartip Horn Antique
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eBay Rare Victor D Phonograph with Speartip Horn Antique Video will open in a new windowUsing the eBay App? Paste link into a browser window: [isdntekvideo] Rare Victor D with Speartip Horn Very Rare and Collectible Circa 1903-06 Probably The Best Oak Victor Phonograph Made – in Near Mint Original Condition! The Largest and Most Ornate of All the Oak External Horn Machines! Wonderful Quartersawn Machine and Horn Detailed Carving with Egg and Dart, Rope Twist Edges, and Gingerbread and Foliate Design on Bottom Edge Extra Large Cabinet and Size Was Redesigned in 1909 with Less Gingerbread CarvingLarge Triple-Spring MotorBeautiful Oak Spear Horn in Exceptional Condition with Restored FinishAll of the Nickel is in Mint ElbowCheck out the Sound Quality in the Video MachineHeight: 18"Width: 14"Depth: 14"HornLength: 26"Diameter: 21.5"Brad?s Antiques ...American ...Original AntiqueSELLER SHIPPING POLICY:We will make shipping arrangements for you if you desire.Our freight companies are very experienced in handling fine antique furniture. Minimum time to accept returns is 14 days. Buyer pays return shippingGOOD LUCK BIDDING! Brad Charles Questions? Call Us. I'm one of Ebay's best known, most highly regarded sellers of collector quality phonographs. I've been Selling and Shipping them for more than 40 years and started Selling on Ebay in 1999! When you purchase an antique phonograph from me you will receive one of the finest External Horn machines Victor ever made, That is the Only Kind I Sell!Visit our About Me page for more information on our company and our retail store in Liberty, MO.40 Years Retail Experience. We ship products nationwide, and Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, Germany & Australia (Condition: Pre-Owned)
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RARE William Henry Custom Serpant Snake â??Hornets Nestâ? Pocket Knife
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RARE William Henry Custom Serpant Snake â??Hornets Nestâ? Pocket Knife. Gemstones: Spessartite, natural gemstones, precision cut and set in 18k gold bezelsBlade: Stainless Damascus Bolster: Hand engraved stainless w/ inlaid GOLD & COPPERScale Inlay: Rare Desert ironwoodNew, never used or carried. Has been in a safe since day of purchase.
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Bettini Phonograph Horn ORIGINAL RARE Not Victor or Edison
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I found this horn over 35 years ago, hoping to find a Bettini reproducer to put on either a Edison or Columbia machine. (Review Pictures).
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