Saw this at yesterday's flea market. You could hear it before seeing it. It had such a wonderful sound. The man said it was a 1957 Telefunken radio made in Germany. He bought it, cleaned it all up, made a few repairs and had it out there for the "I really do not want to sell it" price of $500. I looked them up when I got home and saw a not as nice one on eBay for $399.
I love that it has big city names on it and that it received short wave. Note the Made in Western Germany. It has history. Tube radios have a special sound to them that radios of today cannot match. This radio surpassed any tube radio I have ever heard before. Too bad today's radio stations are not worthy of this radio.
He also had these wonderful glass front bookcases. I did not ask the price on them. I would dearly love to have them but have no room although I do have the books that would look nice in them.
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The old radio is very cool! And very expensive...
I remember such a radio from home long ago. My father used little stickers on the glass to point to the dutch stations which where not mentioned on the senders scale . I am talking about 1957 here.
Superbe reportage!
Très joli post!
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Cath.
I remember those radios we had at home too. Always turning the button to find your music.
We used to have a wonderful old radio when I was a child; a dial that lit up, an aerial wire that run across to a pole on the side of the outside toilet, and a dial with all those wonderful faraway cities - Hilversum, Paris, Munich and AFN too, that was American Forces Network which broadcast to the troops stationed in Germany and elsewhere. Thanks for stirring up an old memory.
neat radio. a type i've not seen before.
Many of the older radios had short wave. I used to listen to short wave as a kid and also when I was in the Arctic. I had my Grandpa's tube radio. We couldn't get any mor ebatteries for it and didn't change it to eclectric. I don't know what happened to it after I left home.a tub
I love those bookcases...I could easily fill them, too. I would have liked to hear that radio...
yes I can see quality in that 'not-so-old' radio :).
That's a unique looking radio. I'd love to have it, but not at that price!
I remember those radios too! And I love the bookcases.
Now that would be wonderful to have.
Beautiful SW Radio indeed. My dad had one similar; might have been a Phillips. I have a Grundig, newer technology, for SW.
You have a good eye, mon ami.
Peace :)
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