[MrFixr55]

Bob, that set is gorgeous!!! Another of your beautiful restorations!

I forget the name of the seller but there is a person on eBay who commands and actually gets a very nice price for his radios (In the $300 Zone for late depression wooden sets), precisely because he does the kind of restorations that you do.

Joseph, Ms. Fixr is a big fan of Bob Ross ("Happy little trees") Where did you get the Bob Ross Potato Head, I gotta get one for her.

My reason for collecting a radio is not for the value or even for complete restoration (I am not a woodworker), but for the history. My collection spans the history of radio from the early broadcast age (1920s) through the Depression and the maturation of the technology (1930s), WWII and the late 1940s to the end of tube radios and the beginning of the transistor age. As I handle and restore these sets to operating condition, I can't help bit to think of who built them owned them, the times that they lived in and the importance of the radio to their lives, especially the balm from isolation that farm sets provided the rural farmer, the information from shortwave in the 1930s documenting the seeds of war being planted in Europe and Asia, the music and opinions that changed our society for better or worse, etc. Some of these sets are from my childhood, given to me by people long passed. Handling these sets, causes me to think of and pray for the people whose hands touched these sets.

Some of my more iconic and one or 2 "Holy Grail" sets are:
Westinghouse RC (RA DA) ca 1922, one of the first commercial broadcast receivers, introduced 1920
Westinghouse Aeriola Sr (no RCA markings, wood panel) ca 1922, introduced late 1921
RCA (GE) Radiola II ca 1923
FADA 160 ca 1923, early Neutrodyne set
RCA (Westinghouse) Radiola III
3 tube kit set (unbranded) ca 1923
A-K Models 10, 20 ca 1924
A-K Models 32, 35, 36, 40, 44 ca 1926-1928
RCA Radiolas 16, 17, 18, 60, ca 1927-1928
Philco 20 ca 1931-1932
GE S-22A (RCA R-7A) ca 1932
Canadian Victor Talking Machine (RCA) R-28 ca 1933, used 2A7 Pentagrid Convertor, sold for $20 after price war with Philco 80 Jr
GE BX (RCA R-17M) ca 1933 4 Tube AC-DC TRF, sold for $14.95
RCA T7-5 AM/SW ca 1936
RCA 6BK AM/SW (Farm Set), ca 1936
Zenith 6-S-52 AM/SW (Chassis only) ca 1936, in my possession since 1967
Philco 37-116 AM/SW Console (Code 122 w/ Magnetic Tuning) ca 1937
BF Goodrich Mantola 419 Battery portable ca 1940
Philco 41-255 AM/SW ca 1941
Philco 46-350 Battery/ AC-DC Portable ca 1946
Philco 48-206 ca 1948
Zenith Transoceanic AM/SW 8G005 ca 1948
RCA 1R91 Livingston AM/FM ca 1948
Zenith 7H820 AM/FM (old and new bands) ca 1948
GE 547PH AM Clock Radio w/ Phono input ca 1956
Emerson 859 Pocket Transistor, ca 1955
Emerson 888 Transistor ca 1956
Sears Silvertone Silvertone (Arvin) 1025 AM FM Stereo (via AM FM simulcast), Phono / Aux inputs ca 1958
Telefunken "Allegro" 5083W AM FM (w/ "Stereo" amp for stereo external inputs and extra speaker) ca 1960
Fisher 800 C AM/FM Stereo w/ Phono / Tape inputs, Stereo via AM FM Simulcast or Multiplex
SABA Trans-Europa I AM/FM/LW/SW Portable (available with slide-in bracket for car) ca 1965
Various Boomboxes, AM FM Stereo Cassettes, CD Players that I have not catalogued, and other radios that are not iconic