Harvey Mattel says there are two kinds of radio collectors: Those who collect for what's on the inside and those who collect for what's on the outside. He's the latter. But you would never know this ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Waldron zips and zaps around his north Austin apartment like the waves that are pulled out of the air by his amazing collection of vintage tube radios. The pops, crackles and hums that emanate ...
Antique Radios Collectors and Historians of Greater St. Louis Interviews Antique Radios Collectors and Historians of Greater St. Louis' President Joe Tauser joins the show to showcase vintage radios ...
John Terrey is an inveterate collector. Growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, he collected stamps. Later, as his interests and geographical scope expanded, the now 76-year-old engineer would go on to ...
Vintage but modern-looking plastic radios are popular with collectors today. The art deco design was popular when Bakelite was introduced as the first molded plastic used for radio cases, in 1933. But ...
When La Palma resident John Eng looks at a piece of what some call “dead technology,” he doesn’t think of something that no longer works. Instead, he envisions the devices’ heyday. A curvy Zenith ...
Michael Katz has been a collector of sorts since the age of 13, sifting through his father’s change pile after he got off work as a bus driver in New York City. One day, he found a 1903 Liberty nickel ...
The FCC upheld its $7,000 fine against Richard Mann, “The Antique Radio Collector,” for marketing uncertified AM transmitters, and warned him about subsequent marketing. Last November, we reported, ...