Jarret Brown, 41, purchased his very first vintage radio at a flea market when he was about 20 years old. It was a little white RCA Victor for which he paid no more than $2. Today, it lives in his ...
Hundreds of collectors of antique radios will get on the same wavelength during the Antique Radio Club of Illinois’ Radiofest XVIII Wednesday through Friday in Elgin. Dr. Ralph Muchow’s private museum ...
Think of antique radio collections and you probably conjure an image of shelves filled with cathedral and tabletop receivers, suitcase portables and large floor-standing consoles. But to those who ...
Ray Likar was instantly drawn to the 1947 short wave radio at the tag sale. When Likar found out the owner was asking only $25 for the unit, he snatched it up. "As soon as I turned it on, the Yankee ...
The ad for the antique radio would break many collectors’ hearts. It touted a Majestic Model 92, a floor-standing console made in Chicago in 1929, which featured still-gorgeous walnut veneer and ...
ARNOLD, Md. (AP) -- Dr. Steve Hansman likes to think of himself as a kind of archaeologist. But the artifacts he seeks aren't buried in the dirt. They're at flea markets and antique shops, posted on ...
Long before computers, smart phones and television, the radio was the center of family entertainment and information. Now those classic old radios are being collected and restored by members of the ...
Jim Sargent, president of the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society with a few antique items, including a 1904 Columbia Standard phonograph. At left is a O'neil table model loudspeaker, and in rear is ...
The FCC fined Richard Mann $7,000 for marketing uncertified AM transmitters. The Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau responded to a complaint in 2006 that Mann’s Antique ...
Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...
“Since 1950 I was in the electronic repair business and I retired in 1981 but after 12 months of doing nothing, I started repairing vintage radios,” Mr Meijer said. The Castlecrag collector’s passion ...
In the digital age where small is beautiful, the new generation may be oblivious to the existence of huge contraptions with shutters that used to be operated only under the strict supervision of the ...
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