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 ...

Long before television there was radio. First tabletops then consoles made their way into the living rooms of Americans. Families would gather around their radios to listen to the nightly news and ...

Way back in October of 2011, I wrote of a five-tube AM radio I received from the estate of the parents of my friend, Dean. It is a model 56B manufactured around 1947 in Los Angeles by the Gilfillan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Purchasing, refinishing and selling antique radios is a home based business that can be started by just about anyone on a full- or part-time basis. Antique radios are highly sought-after pieces of ...

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 ...

A man with a passion for recycling and repurposing materials brings antique radios back to life at the Ottawa Antique and Vintage Market. “It’s a fabulous idea,” said Ottawan Suzanne Roy, 59, who went ...

A grandfather-of-five has revealed his impressive antique radio and test instrument collection worth up to £15,000. Richard Allan, a retired electrical engineer, has spent the last fifty years ...

This beautiful little radio may look like an art deco relic from a hundred years ago, but it is actually from 2023. When [Craig Lindley] first saw this design on these very pages a few years ago, he ...

We stumbled upon Steve Johnson’s beautiful collection of radios and couldn’t resist passing it along. Stay tuned to a future issue for a snapshot of his tube testers. All information courtesy Steve’s ...