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Old 02-22-2017, 08:07 PM
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1950s Vintage Silvertone Stereophonic Suitcase Record Player

Hello Everyone about 3 weeks ago a buddy of mine who used to own a local flea market had several old Suitcase record players that were in various stages of working order from working but changer needing some work, to amplifier being completely dead but record player was still good and everything in between.

Well my friend got out of the flea market business when the landlord that owned the shop he was in decided to hike his rent by almost 50% of what he had originally agreed to have my friend pay for rent (my friend had completely fixed up the building he was renting from the guy by himself and because of that the landlord had agreed to give him cheap rent for the building but apparently the landlord forgot about that agreement and raised the rent so my friend decided to get out of the flea market business and go on the road instead).

So because of that he had an auction to get rid of as much of the stuff he had in his flea market as possible including these record players but they didn't end up selling so he instead gave them to me to use as parts units or whatever I chose to do with them.

One of the units I got from my friend was a 1950s vintage Silvertone Model 263 Stereophonic Suitcase Record Player that still plays well except for the changer mechanism. Anyways I would love to know a little more about this unit as far as how high end this model was and who made the record player unit and who made this record player for Sears.

Pictures posted below.

Thanks,

Levi

P.S. This Record player actually has seperate Bass and Treble controls and has the concentric volume control for the volume/balance control. The amplifier in this unit is actually equipped with 4 tubes, 2 7025s and 2 50C5s and then a selenium rectifier.
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