09-07-2012, 07:05 PM
Welcome, Groundhog!
You've been given good advice from all. As Bruce says, you should take it easy buying until you know what you want to collect. (And, yes, when you arrive at that point, you will know it.)
I think a lot of us start out buying anything and everything. Eventually, though, most of us begin to focus on something. It might be one particular manufacturer, or a particular style of cabinet, etc. It's part of the natural progression of radio collecting.
I went from buying anything in the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, to 1920s battery sets by the mid-1980s, then to Philco in 1990. Now, after years of admiring the "classics," I've opened the door to a few of these as well.
I, too, have sold a few radios this year and given away some others as I begin to do some refocusing - I want to stick with the Philcos with higher tube counts and good SW coverage, Philco Tropic sets, and a few Scotts as well as the king of them all - my McMurdo Silver Masterpiece VI. But I still like the Philco 19 and 89 sets. Even though they would be considered lower-end radios and do not have real SW coverage, they offer surprisingly good performance for a six-tube set.
You've been given good advice from all. As Bruce says, you should take it easy buying until you know what you want to collect. (And, yes, when you arrive at that point, you will know it.)
I think a lot of us start out buying anything and everything. Eventually, though, most of us begin to focus on something. It might be one particular manufacturer, or a particular style of cabinet, etc. It's part of the natural progression of radio collecting.
I went from buying anything in the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, to 1920s battery sets by the mid-1980s, then to Philco in 1990. Now, after years of admiring the "classics," I've opened the door to a few of these as well.
I, too, have sold a few radios this year and given away some others as I begin to do some refocusing - I want to stick with the Philcos with higher tube counts and good SW coverage, Philco Tropic sets, and a few Scotts as well as the king of them all - my McMurdo Silver Masterpiece VI. But I still like the Philco 19 and 89 sets. Even though they would be considered lower-end radios and do not have real SW coverage, they offer surprisingly good performance for a six-tube set.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
