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Old 31st Jul 2010, 9:53 pm   #7
Steerpike2
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Default Re: HMV Gramophone, fake?

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Originally Posted by Boom View Post
My understanding is that the motors on the crapophones are the genuine vintage item. Why on earth pull a good vintage gramophone to bits to make
a poor modern copy?

From what I have heard, as applied to South Africa (some years ago, not necessarily true now), there was a high tax/duty on the import of the genuine article, but not so if it was fake, or contained some fake parts. So stripping out the guts and making it partly fake made a mch higher profit if they sold them to the unwary.
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