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Old 14th Aug 2022, 7:15 pm   #1
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Default Can anyone identify the make of this radio?

Hello all,

New user, first time post...

I recently purchased this old two tuber and could use some help in identifying it to aid in restoring it. Especially what the missing badge may have looked like.

I've attached a couple images.

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Old 14th Aug 2022, 7:38 pm   #2
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Jenny,
there are people far more informed than me on this Forum, but it looks like a reproduction of some sort to me, just don't look right A repo made from old components granted, but...
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Old 14th Aug 2022, 7:42 pm   #3
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Home made set.
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Old 14th Aug 2022, 8:19 pm   #4
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It,s the Phillips screws, that makes me think its a modern repro

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Default Re: Can anyone identify the make of this radio?

Or rather, a radio put together from genuine vintage parts, but in recent times.
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Or rather, a radio put together from genuine vintage parts, but in recent times.
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That knob with the arrow on it seems familiar.... now where? Government surplus...

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Old 14th Aug 2022, 9:32 pm   #8
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I cannot see a coil. Shouldn't there be a coil within a coil that rotates to vary the reaction as well as tune the detector stage.
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Old 14th Aug 2022, 9:37 pm   #9
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Thank you for the info. SoI have A Frankin-Radio. It will be fun to try and make work.

BY the way I am also a ham. I’m an American X-Pat callsign: KQ4U
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Aha! I wondered about the reference to the set as a "two tuber". Made me think of potatoes!


A reverse engineered circuit would be interesting.....
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Hi

The dial looks like an Ormond "Indigraph" which would have been sold to home constructors in the early 1920's

The knob with white arrow looks familiar, but I can't quite place it. Maybe 1920's but possibly a little later.

I agree with other comments that the components are vintage but at least some of the assembly isn't. No PVC insulated wire or Philips head screws in the twenties, at least in the UK.

The case might be vintage, or even from another old set, but I can't really tell from the photos.
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Old 15th Aug 2022, 6:03 pm   #12
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Reminiscent of Gambrell kits; the components appear to be mid 1920s to possibly as late as 1933. I'm sure I've seen something like this before, but can't just place it. The use of rusty slotted head screws and braided covered cord suggests the original composition is quite old and maybe 'restored' in more modern (post 1970) times. A photo of the whole of the back might shed more light.
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Old 15th Aug 2022, 6:24 pm   #13
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A very oddball set. I agree with everybody else that it's some sort of repro / heavy restoration - the front panel looks distinctly wrong. If the valves/tubes are genuine 1920s types then it's going to need a 2V or 4V filament supply to do anything at all, but it's not clear if it's even supposed to work. Somebody has gone to a lot of trouble to build it though.

Very, very strange.
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Old 15th Aug 2022, 8:25 pm   #14
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Hi Jenny, plenty of circuits on the web showing typical use of those components. Feel free to PM me is you need any assistance

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That case is familiar, but can't remember where I've seen it before. At the NVCF a few years back I sold the remains of a homemade late 20s set to someone who builds this sort of thing.
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Old 18th Aug 2022, 4:10 pm   #16
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This looks identical and a few more pictures...

https://www.davidduggleby.com/auctio...x?search=Radio

It is described as a "Early 20th century valve crystal radio". Interesting that it does not appear to have a tuning coil.

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This looks identical and a few more pictures...

https://www.davidduggleby.com/auctio...x?search=Radio

It is described as a "Early 20th century valve crystal radio". Interesting that it does not appear to have a tuning coil.

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It is one and the same set, the wood's 'fingerprints' match.
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Hi

The plaque at the bottom of the case in the auction photos says "Supplied by Selfridges". Who knows who the actual maker was, but unlikely to have been a one-off. There is a photo online of Selfridge's "Radio Annexe", which I can't post for copyright reasons. Also, the BBC's 2LO transmitter had its aerial on the store roof from about 1925 to 1929. Clearly, they were reasonably well involved in the supply of radios.

I wonder if this set was originally designed to use an outboard frame aerial, which would also have formed the coil for the single tuned circuit ? Many Londoners wouldn't have had room for an outdoor aerial so this may have been a selling point.
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I feel that the cabinet is commercial but the components aren’t original to it.
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Old 19th Aug 2022, 10:21 am   #20
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Totally agree with Nick, it's driving me mad trying to remember where I've seen that cabinet before!

Gerry Wells would have known in five seconds!
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