1950s & Newer

These sets I have either because they were gifts, cheap or from when I was new to radios. Many of them I would be willing to part with in trade or sale.

General Electric 429, red plastic radio complete with civil defense markers on the dail.

Here is a leather Zenith Y-506L, uses the same leather as some of the Zenith transoceanics and is a nice portible that was a gift.

Here we have a Zenith R-511V which is a very bright red plastic set with civil defense markers on the dail and a moving daillamp that shines threw the plastic case.

I actually have two Zenith R-600 Transoceanics, although only one is pictured above. I got the pair at a garage sale for about $45, at the time I did not really care for TO's since "everyone has them" but the price was right. Upon paying for it, the guy said that he had a second one at his shop and I could have it for free if I buy the one at the garage sale. I agreed and a few days later I got the second one. It just so happened that the TO I got at the garage sale was a junker (parts) radio and the freebie was an all original mint TO, seen above (be it dusty from storage). Everything was there and intact- the telescoping antenna, the wave magnet, the wave magnet suction cups, owners manual even the log booklet. The second TO, same model number, needs a few parts to restore. Basically I need a benzel, telescoping antenna, antenna knob, owners manual, chart/log booklet, power cord spool, 1l6 tube (the rare pricey one), and the wave magnet. If I find all those parts, I will have myself two complete R-600 TO's. But for now I consider the bad one to be a parts set, restorible pending parts. TO's do get perform quite well, and I have been impressed with them even in thick walled, interference filled dorm rooms. I like the set, but I wouldn't have paid true value for one given how it seems every collector has one TO or two.

Here we have a Zenith B-508R, with mild case discoloration. The set works and was a cheap buy from my early days in radio collecting. Its a fairly simple little set.

This Zenith H-715 I picked up fairly cheaply, and is in very good shape cabinetry wise. The set is an AM/FM tabletop, bought at the time because it has FM which most of my radios lack. Locally not much exists on AM which was partly why I bought this radio, it works and sounds good however channels tend to "move" a tad requiring periodic retuning, a problem common on many of the early FM radios.