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Help With the King's Radio UPDATED HISTORY
#1

https://www.russoldradios.com/blog/the-k...t-a-zenith

Input/comments requested. If you don't want to post on the blog, post here and I will copy the comments(pertinent) to the blog.

Russ

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#2

Wow.....a piece with a history. Hopefully a documented one.
Is it in Sweden or has sinced travelled down here?

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#3

It is still in Sweden and I told him that IMHO it should remain there - and postage for shipping will probably assure that.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#4

Oh, it's just a stamp......

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#5

I asked if he had any more on its history and his family's acquisition of the radio.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#6

I can't really help except I agree on the RCA escutcheon w/o RCA on it. A pretty impressive set that you won't find in an old Sears catalog Icon_e_wink

John KK4ZLF
Lexington, KY
"illegitimis non carborundum"
#7

He was King from 1907 to 1950, wonder what he heard on that set? Makes ya' think. Icon_eek

Paul

Tubetalk1
#8

There was one a lot like that for sale near me about a year or so ago. Price was good and it sold fairly quick and I pondered getting it myself until I told myself I didn't have the space. Neat piece with even cooler history!

No matter where you go, there you are.
#9

How much could it weigh? Not a portable.

Paul

Tubetalk1
#10

What, Russ, are you working on Jerry Lawler's radio? Icon_lol

   

Ok. To be serious, it's too bad Doug Houston is no longer with us...he could likely tell you anything you would want to know about that radio-phonograph.

--
Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
#11

Greetings,
What the king had there was a Victor Hyperion (Victor model Fifteen-One).  !926 to 1928 which listed for $900.)) US.  The radio was an RCA Radiola 28.  This was Victor's first all electric Orthophonic Radio - Record player combination.  It is described on page 222 of Robert Baumbach's book - Look for the Dog (first edition).
There should be a plate within the record compartment (to the rear of the compartment on  or adjacent to the motor board) with the Victor model name and number.
It was impressive at 57.25" High, 47" Wide and 19.5" deep.
The cabinet styling was Italian in nature, using walnut and maple.
Fran
#12

I copied Fran's comments to the blog.

I worked on a Sonora 3RP a few years ago. It was of this vintage and size. It took 4 men to load it into the back of a truck. When it was delivered to me, we set it on a roller dolly and I did all of the restoration without removing it from the dolly.

   

Sonora 3RP Also very rare.

Now that I think about it, it could have been 3 men and a tractor - -

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#13

Thomas has provided the history of the Kings radio. It is quite a story.

Entered at the bottom of the original blog.

Russ

https://www.russoldradios.com/blog/the-k...t-a-zenith

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#14

Very Cool indeed. Some of these radios have quite a story. I know someone who restored a radio for a family member of Lefty Grove, Grove had been given the Radio by the Red Sox when he retired.......this is all very neat lore.

Thanks for letting us in on the Big Swede.

Paul

Tubetalk1
#15

Paul,

You may have missed the picture of the "replacement" radio which is very cool.

I did not post it until 10 min after the initial entry - your time stamp is only 6 min later so you probably did.

My fingers are just not fast enough - anymore.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/




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