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Philco 40-135
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My radio is in Ron's photo collection and about 17,000+ were manufactured according to R.R.  However, I hardly ever see it mentioned in Philco posts--- a lot more 140-140 and 145s.  Is it considered rare at all?-----surely NOT.
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Not sure how rare it is but one just sold on the bay for $23 so it did not get bid up to crazy prices.
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Ron probably knows the correct break points with relative rarity but my guess is "medium rare"
>20,000 produced fairly common
>10,000-20,000 medium rare
<10,000 pretty rare
#4

JimZ has a good point...I would add that you probably don't see it mentioned much because it isn't a highly desirable radio. That doesn't make it bad...it just means that not a lot of collectors are knocking themselves out trying to get their hands on one.

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Ron Ramirez
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#5

Yeah...I should have added...rare and desirable are two different things...which is what Ron mentioned.

Edit and Add: What I said may have conveyed the wrong thing. I sure didn't mean to imply the radio^^wasn't "desirable". Heck Ive seen these sell for good $ in nice condition. I meant generally..low production numbers don't always translate to higher values. The other side of that same coin is condition of the example. Ive seen particularly nice examples of fairly common models sell for small fortunes.




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