Jim's Antique Radio Museum - Real radios glow in the dark and are warm to cuddle up next to.

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The picture here is of the RCA Radiola model-17 from 1927, which is said to be the first production radio designed to be run off of AC power. All previous sets ran off of batteries.

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394 Comments

Reply Greg West

06:22 PM on February 03, 2010

Beautiful...just beautiful!

Reply gillesblanc

09:52 PM on January 29, 2010

merci un site web formidable pour mes radio ancien merci

Reply Jim

01:56 AM on January 18, 2010

Those are some nice radios Andy.

Jim

Andy DeGaust says...
Really enjoyed your site. I am a collector of sorts myself, having owned/ traded/given away dozens of antique
radios. Spent my life as a comm tech in the Canadian Air Force so many of these old pieces passed over my work bench through the years. At the Moment I have only half a dozen specimens in the house - an Emerson table superhet,
1934 with a green celluloid case, a 1927 Bosch American with sliding doors on the dial and speaker as well
as a GE parlour model, 1938 vintage. There are a few others around but old age has reduced me to poor
eyesight and shaky hands!! It's hard to handle the soldering iron these days!!
Andy

Reply Andy DeGaust

08:46 PM on January 17, 2010

Really enjoyed your site. I am a collector of sorts myself, having owned/ traded/given away dozens of antique
radios. Spent my life as a comm tech in the Canadian Air Force so many of these old pieces passed over my work bench through the years. At the Moment I have only half a dozen specimens in the house - an Emerson table superhet,
1934 with a green celluloid case, a 1927 Bosch American with sliding doors on the dial and speaker as well
as a GE parlour model, 1938 vintage. There are a few others around but old age has reduced me to poor
eyesight and shaky hands!! It's hard to handle the soldering iron these days!!
Andy

Reply Brenda Sova

02:12 PM on January 17, 2010

I have a 1950? Magnavox TV/Phono/Radio Hepplewhite console. The tv lights up but no picture and the phonograph/radio do work. The cabinet has two doors on the front - one is for record storage, the other is the radio/speaker. The phonograph is located on top with a separate lid on hinges. I haveseen some old ads for similar models, but have not been able to find one like this to compare. Are you familiar with this model?

Reply tom

12:10 AM on January 16, 2010

I picked up a nice little solid state Magnavox Stereo recently and have tried to "Google" it and have found nothing on it. It says the Model Number is 1r1712. It is not a console but a actual 2 channel stereo with RCA outputs . It is solid state ...not a tube amp. Cabinet is very nice and both channels work well. Anyway...I can send a picture if it might help. I'm guessing early to mid 60's.

Thanks,

Reply Timothy Walker

05:57 PM on January 09, 2010

hi my name is Timothy and i have a gilfillan radio but i don't know anything about it ,please can you say me information about price of the radio

Thank you for you attention

Reply Mr. Keli Remus

11:21 PM on January 08, 2010

Hi. We just cleaned out my mother's basement. Found a Packard-Bell 602. I warmed it up at my house. Plugged it in and it fired right up. Good sound...called my brothers and sisters and my mom. She said it was my paternal grandfather's. Thanks for the website. Couldn't find one on ebay so I googled and got you.

Reply Wayne Russert

09:16 PM on January 08, 2010

Fantastic collection. I enjoy all vintage electrical stuff. Happy hunting!

Reply Bill

01:09 AM on January 07, 2010

Very nice collection & Thanks for sharing with all of us who also have this radio addiction smile

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