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Help identifying a couple of things at an estate sale tomorrow

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The first one looks very familiar, but could also be an extension speaker for that organ. Second one looks like a mono console.
What caught my eye was that arch top guitar....
 
I think it may be a stand up console, I had a packard bell that had the same look, but it could also be a speaker. I had one identical to it with a goodmans driver. It for sure isn't a extension speaker for the organ. Its either a radio, extension speaker, or console..I want to go with console as it appears there is a pilot light on the front....but in all reality you'll have no idea what they are till you go open the lid or look at the back. I would be there though to find out what they are and the big question price
 
Bozak in a french provincial cabinet on the first one, maybe? Although, the no feet thing is throwing that idea out the window.
 
dnewma04 said:
Bozak in a french provincial cabinet on the first one, maybe? Although, the no feet thing is throwing that idea out the window.
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There's definitely 2 french provincial Bozak 302s in the first photo. The 1 on the right is missing it's feet; the 1 barely visible on the left has it's feet. I should know. I have one with feet exactly like.
 
Can't be of any real help on the identification but be careful. The stuff could be haunted......................... BOOOOOOO :D
 
I think the second one is a mono (or stereo capable with extension speaker) phonograph console. I'd bet on Magnavox.
 
perchdog said:
oops, missed those... i was trying to figure out what that foot was from earlier
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hehe me too, here I was thinking I was all smart and all :D But I do have a keen eye, thats how I found my trusonic speaker from 1949 for 75$, it comes in handy at sales too, I can always find were the audio has been hiding for 40 years.

Someone better go to the sale and clear up this mystery :D
 
i do like the thrill of the hunt... its the cost of refurb or aquiring a mate for those "score" finds that are eating me alive....
 
perchdog said:
i do like the thrill of the hunt... its the cost of refurb or aquiring a mate for those "score" finds that are eating me alive....
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Thats the truth most stuff I would like to mate up, like my craftsmen 550 but there is no way I would be able to afford one. I just keep the stuff in my collection to show the art, craftsmanship, and the progression of audio.
 
So did anyone go and find out what it was? Since there isn't an update, I can assume it was WE and the op decided to go on a cruise :D
 
The real treasure in those pictures is in the boxes in the second picture: those are records, and some of them are old, rare, valuable and collectible ones (although not all are). The console on legs, the records and the extension speaker on the floor should all (have) be(en) bought as a package deal from the estate-sale organizers.

So what has happened to them?
 
Just looked at a few more of those pics. There is something a little sad and morbid about an estate sale like that. This was probably an old person, not very wealthy, and it feels somehow like a rude intrusion to be looking at their private effects, and thinking about "what would I buy", because that person is now gone. I don't know, estate sales never bothered me before, but this one? Just doesn't make me feel good, ya know?!


That said, if I ran across original Marantz tube gear with affordable price tags at an estate sale , I wouldn't hesitate to be intrusive and to whip out the old wallet... :D
 
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