[Arran]

I can confirm what was said, not only from my own memory, but from glancing at some old radio price guides of the early 1990s. In my opinion an RCA 816 is worth having, not so much because of it's resale value, which wasn't really smashing even 30 years ago, but because they are attractive, good performing sets, with a decent audio output stage. I have been keeping my eyes open for an Canadian G.E version as they have a slightly different cabinet and not as common as the RCA versions. I  think the resale values have been going down with the generational change, the WW2 generation is all but gone, Korean war generation not far behind, and what drives prices is nostalgia, not age. This is not unique to vintage radios, clocks, and gramophones have taken a dump as well, the odd person may want one as a piece of objects d'art but isn't collecting them. On the other hand people collect early P.Cs and restore them, which were more or less considered e-waste maybe 20 years ago, but the right makes, and models bring big bucks.
  RadioTVPhonoNut is facing a dilemma now, he made the mistake of collecting a lot of things that he is now faced with getting rid of at some point, like radio-phono combo units or 1980s stereo equipment. I suggested parting the rougher less interesting stuff out, and if not so rough, giving it away. I learned to stop dragging a lot of junk like this home because it ended up taking up space that could be used for something more interesting, once I passed on an HMV radio-phono combo, which was interesting in itself but bulky, and two weeks later I found a Rogers Ten-Twelve. You have to face it that it isn't worth collecting, and restoring everything that comes along, sometimes it's just better to pass it along to someone who wants to work on it.
Regards
Arran