38 I saw a little table radio with a very pretty plastic case, butthe owner want hundreds of dollars for it...
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This article is from the Antique Radios And Phonographs FAQ, by Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom with numerous contributions by others.
38 I saw a little table radio with a very pretty plastic case, butthe owner want hundreds of dollars for it...
... The case looks like marble, but
the radio inside is just another of those 35Z5 and 50L6 five tube jobs.
Why does the owner think its worth almost a thousand bucks?
Well, you've stumbled on the collectors' hot item of the nineties,
the "Catalin" case. The reason the owner thinks it is worth this much
is that the collectors' market seems to be willing to pay these prices
for a catalin case. Whether it will continue to do so is open to
question. It is difficult, in a FAQ item, to explain the whimsies of
the "collector" market, because these tend to change.
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