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Originally Posted by Olorin67
Really cool! Thats not one Ive ever seen a photo of. The VM 7" changers do not seem to be to common, I'm still looking for one. The RP-190 changers that were made by crescent for RCA and others are way more common. crescents factory burned down in 57 or 58, ending production of the rp-190, so companies that still wanted to market a 7" changer had to go to VM, but full size record changers had gotten so cheap by that time, and the popularity of LP records meant that 7" only changers only had a limited market by that time, and The 7" changers died out. I have about 15 of the rp190s and rp-168s, but ive never run across one of the VMs.
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I don't think, they burned down that early.
All the Silvertone changers built later than that, were Crescent built, unless Warwick bought the tooling. I know the Sears changers had the 528 source on the nameplate.
BTW, the tone arm has the V-M look to it.