[Jayce]

As I mentioned in the January finds post, I ended up getting this fairly nice Emerson 659 yesterday at a decent price (once I found the price tag!). So far, it's shaping up like it's going to be a rather nice radio once I get it recapped. Right now the FM is rather weak and the AM reception is very directional, basically you have to rotate the radio around to get good reception even on our local channel without an external antenna connected. Of course this being a late 40's or early 50's AM-FM radio (some sources say 1949 others 1950-51), it might not ever be strong on FM without an external dipole antenna. As it sits now, it is a working, but a bit tired radio working on a rather old servicing sometime in its past. It does sound fairly good though, having a fairly large speaker inside the case.
It seems odd. About 20 years ago my radio collecting started with a somewhat battered DeWald AM-FM table radio and I'm thinking it might be fitting to finally stop my active collecting with this Emerson. Would make for a neat closing of the circle to end on a similar note. Not saying I wouldn't mind a couple more little Arvins or one of the few radios on my bucket list, but this would mark and end to wandering about looking for radios and perhaps starting to sell off the ones I no longer want.
Oh! And of course maybe find a Philco 20. Still kinda want one of those.