Product Description

Machine Age to Jet Age, Vol. 1, America's No.1 vintage radio identification and price guide has been revamped and renamed The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios. Includes over 1,400 pictures of more than 2,500 vintage tabletop radios. Images have been digitally enhanced, listings expanded & reformatted.Icons now indicate Canadian radios, Ingraham cabinets, World's Fair models and noteworthy industrial designers. Also, newly added are tube and band counts, options, variations and their current values.

An exciting reason to purchase this new edition is that we've now added a comprehensive cross-reference of all radios pictured in the 3-volume

Tabletop series! This INDEX is comprised of over 9,000 listings sorted by brand. Radios are referenced and cross-referenced by model number and model name. Each listing also includes description of variation_ cabinet material, color, finish, tube count, etc. All radios have revised 2002/3 market values as well as the series volume number noting where in the series each radio is pictured and fully described.

You'll wonder what you ever did without it!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #941901 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

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About the Author
Mark V. Stein is a noted authority on art deco and machine age radios. He has been collecting and selling vintage radios for the past 15 years. Through his catalogs and website he has sold thousands of vintage radios over the years. He currently maintains a website which focuses on high-end art deco radios and related items Mark received his Masters in Business from Johns Hopkins University in 1984. He currently resides in Maryland with his wife and two daughters where he dedicates his time to researching, authoring and publishing books about vintage radios, clocks and other industrial design antiques and collectibles.

Customer Reviews

The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios: Tabletop Radios, 1933-1959
A good book to identify many radios (though not all are listed). Although it needs an update. Last printing was 2002.