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Older Miraphone

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not sure where the listed model number came from:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/174986785688?h ... SwV51hcLy5


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Heavy_Metal wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:34 pm not sure where the listed model number came from:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/174986785688?h ... SwV51hcLy5
It's the serial number. When people don't know much about Miraphones, they see the serial number and think it's the model number.

That said... That's a very low serial number!
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bort2.0 wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:49 pm
Heavy_Metal wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:34 pm not sure where the listed model number came from:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/174986785688?h ... SwV51hcLy5
It's the serial number. When people don't know much about Miraphones, they see the serial number and think it's the model number.

That said... That's a very low serial number!
If internet records can be believed, it was made prior to 1960.
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