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The QRS Loudspeaker and Bob Berkman, Part 2
By Jim Miller

Greetings again, MMD readers. Herein as promised are the final two
communications that Bob Berkman and I had exchanged and as well two
images of the elusive "Q.R.S. Speaker."

In rereading again Bob Berkman's first send, we learn that the earlier
model (which I did find as advertised within the Saturday Evening Post
but which I presently cannot again) was sold in 1924, and the later of
the "Fleur-de-lis" in 1928.

"1928"!

Not yet knowing how late or early of that year, it becomes easier
I believe to imagine why their scarcity -- obviously this being the
Crash leading to the onset of The Great Depression. As for the rest,
surely might we not imagine it with ease?

For the second quartet of images here, the first is of my third
e-mailing to Bob Berkman and the second his third and last sent in
return. In these more little bits of information are shared, which
hopefully are to all combine to provide a now-focusing picture,
regarding our novel subject of instant.

The first image is of the cabinet with showing through the fleur-de-lis
fretwork its frosted gold cone; the second is of the decal confirming
of its reality as the real thing. It is complete under now-darkened
varnish, which as-such I'd found difficult to photograph.

Four more images I will include next in Part 3, with appropriate
explanatory commentary as accompanying. Such will reveal the "driver"
attached to the back board plus a close-up of the pretty frosted-gold
cone, and yet more views of the outside.

I am greatly pleased to be able to make this information available to
posterity's purpose, by means of the good agency of The MMD and its
most dedicated caretakers of greatest endurance -- Messrs. Rhodes and
Kravitz.

Jim Miller
Las Vegas, Nevada

 [ 3rd letter to Berkman.
 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/24/11/26/241126_123215_3rd%20letter%20to%20Berkman.png 

 [ 3rd letter from Berkman.
 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/24/11/26/241126_123215_3rd%20letter%20from%20Berkman.png 

 [ General view of O.R.S. Speaker.
 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/24/11/26/241126_123215_DSCF1152.JPG 

 [ View of the 100% intact back decal.
 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/24/11/26/241126_123215_DSCF1153.JPG 


(Message sent Tue 26 Nov 2024, 20:32:15 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  2, Berkman, Bob, Loudspeaker, Part, QRS

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