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An Atwater Kent model 10C (4700) 5 tube breadboard TRF from 1924-1925. One of the hot items for any radio collector.
Just finished restoring this one and works as well as looks fantastic! Have an Atwater Kent speaker for it, but haven't
restored it yet. Oh, boy; these things getting extremely expensive! Over $1000.00 in not-so-great condition.
Looked for years before I found this one at a heck of a price.
Here's a 1927 Steinite model 990 AC powered 7 tube Superheterodyne radio using 4 ux-199 tubes, a 112 tube for amplification,
and an 80 full-wave rectifier tube. One of the first sets using house current for power. Also has a built-in voltmeter.
Have only refinished the faceboard, haven't stripped and refinished the rest of the case yet. When I got this one, found
that a family of mice had set up houskeeping, and ate all the wiring, both transformers, and the micarta on all the capacitors.
Not too hard of a chassis restoration, though, as it is a simple affair. Shown with a Pathe cone speaker, their first
fully-enclosed version, also from 1927. This one will be a beauty when done, as it is solid mahogany with brass hardware.
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A 1925 Stewart-Warner model 300, 5 tube battery radio using 01A tubes. This is the first radio from Stewart-Warner,
and they would build radios and record players up until 1961. Some of their other radios from the 1930s are some of
the most beautiful and desireable radios in the collector world. This one has a very low serial number, so is one of
the first out the factory door. Haven't restored the case on this one yet, but works very well. Shown with a Magnavox
model M-4 speaker, also ca. 1925.
This is a very rare bird, indeed! A CUSTOM-BUILT 1926 Silver-Marshall 6 tube battery-powered TRF (4 01A and
2 112A tubes) with a center-tapped iron-core choke as well as the two center-tapped audio transformers. Probably the
only one like it ever built! It's the only battery radio I own that has a back-lit dial light in it. Solid
mahogany case (that someone had unfortunately spray-painted black at one time!) with brass trim. Could only find one
reference for this radio, a picture of a similar one in a Silver-Marshall Dealer/Service Station Handbook from 1925,
and there are no schematics on this one. Had to restore the chassis from what was already there; fortunately, the radio
had never been messed with underneath. Silver-Marshall dealers and service stations were factory-authorized to
build custom one-of-a-kind radios using Silver-Marshall parts and with full warranties and factory backing. I had never
seen a custom Silver-Marshall before until this one popped up; had only read about them. Didn't even know what
it was until I got it home and started looking closely at it. Will restore the case on this one very soon! Works
GREAT! Shown with a 1926 Lektophone cone speaker.
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