Jarret Brown, 41, purchased his very first vintage radio at a flea market when he was about 20 years old. It was a little white RCA Victor for which he paid no more than $2. Today, it lives in his ...

Harvey Mattel says there are two kinds of radio collectors: Those who collect for what's on the inside and those who collect for what's on the outside. He's the latter. But you would never know this ...

Ray Likar was instantly drawn to the 1947 short wave radio at the tag sale. When Likar found out the owner was asking only $25 for the unit, he snatched it up. "As soon as I turned it on, the Yankee ...

Think of antique radio collections and you probably conjure an image of shelves filled with cathedral and tabletop receivers, suitcase portables and large floor-standing consoles. But to those who ...

The ad for the antique radio would break many collectors’ hearts. It touted a Majestic Model 92, a floor-standing console made in Chicago in 1929, which featured still-gorgeous walnut veneer and ...

The rare 1923 National Browning Drake "Regenaformer" table top radio is rich in the history of the early art, a story of collaboration, litigation, competition and excitement. This particular radio is ...

ARNOLD, Md. (AP) -- Dr. Steve Hansman likes to think of himself as a kind of archaeologist. But the artifacts he seeks aren't buried in the dirt. They're at flea markets and antique shops, posted on ...

Long before computers, smart phones and television, the radio was the center of family entertainment and information. Now those classic old radios are being collected and restored by members of the ...

Jim Sargent, president of the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society with a few antique items, including a 1904 Columbia Standard phonograph. At left is a O'neil table model loudspeaker, and in rear is ...

I could not write articles about vintage radio without including Atwater Kent, both the man and his radios. He is a legend among vintage enthusiasts and radio collectors, revered with near deity ...

Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

John Waldron zips and zaps around his north Austin apartment like the waves that are pulled out of the air by his amazing collection of vintage tube radios. The pops, crackles and hums that emanate ...