Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:
> Doug:
>
> > Is the reason those old radio/phonograph boxes are not being thrown
> > away is that noone notice the cover and thinks it's just a pretty
> > dresser w/o drawers :)? Also hideaway sewing machines.
>
> :-) I doubt it...
Sometimes. I do quite a bit of antique electronics repair as well and I had
a person ask me why someone would attach a radio into an amoire...It was an
old RCA in a full sized cabinet (factory) and went at a consignment shop for
$40 US. I stopped her just in time to talk her into leaving it be and either
let me find a buyer for it as a radio or repair it for her. She's never seen
anything like it, but to be expected. The woman was a mere 25 yrs old. I
have socks older than that.
> The real crime is those who buy sewing machines with pedestals and
> treadles, throw away the sewing machine and turn the pedestal into an
> olde worlde iron framed coffee table. I am told by a friend in the
> trade that this is v. common.
Yep it is. I was lucky last year in that someone did that to an old original
Singer but they put the head in the barn and amazingly it stayed dry. I was
rooting through odds-n-ends and found the machine head but no base. I bought
that for $5 and while talking to the people in the house I noticed a hall
table stacked up with magazines - the base! I talked them into trading a
much nicer real table and I was able to get the whole thing back together
and my wife now has it proudly in the corner of the sewing room and actually
uses it from time to
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