Hi - I found one of my dad's old needles in a drawer.  In original box, never used.  The foam crumbled when I took it out, its so old!  Mid-60's I'm guessing.  Here is what's written on the box:

B&O STEREO DYNE II (took me a while to figure out that meant Bang & Olufsen)

ACD-22

Astatic n192-7d

Duotone b96d

Electro-Voice 2410d

Fidelitone a-345d

Jensen BO-353xd

Transcriber PS-84

Walco w-548std

Made in England for Almada Corporation.  This stylus is fitted with a genuine micro-diamond needle.

I can provide photos.  Hope this helps someone out (and maybe I'll make some dough.)

Liz

Welcome to Beoworld !

Can we see a photo or two ?

Martin

Something like this ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/STYLUS-Needle-B-O-STERODYNE-II-Cartridge-262-D7-/270408674177

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEEDLE-BANG-OLUFSEN-STEREODYNE-II-PE-9000-262-D7-/290526426157

Martin

Almost like those ones.  I will post the photos later tonight.

Liz

Thanks for the photos.
We like photos. 

In Denmark we had several producers of replacement cartridges and needles for the old SP type pickups.
Some of these more or less legal "counterfeits" were actually quite good, others worse than bad.

This is such a needle and this one was made in England.
I am not familiar with the producer so I cannot advice on the quality.

Not a Bang & Olufsen product but still a nice piece.
Regarding its value, I suppose you can use the quite similar Ebay items as reference
and we will end up in the 10-20 US dollars range.

Insteresting to see that the B&O model it fits has been taken forward of the others on the label.

Martin

Thanks for your help.  The ebay store you referred me to, Carole's Needles, has the same one for sale at $24.50 US.  I'll put mine up for $15 and hope that someone can use it.

Also, I found out the Almada Corporation, the one that my needle was produced for, was a Canadian company that imported records up until the 80's.  More than likely my dad bought it here in Canada in the 60's.

Jen