Just saw this listing... not sure where to begin.. may have some needed parts for someone..
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 6f8b2cc61c
Interesting Edison Standard Radio cobbled mess LOL
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NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
Perhaps someone in the 20s wanted to turn it into a radio?edisonplayer.
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
It's a homebrew crystal radio - I've seen much worse examples before. Circa 1922 ?
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
I have to admit, that's pretty neat.
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
I think it's interesting because there is a lot of history there. It does look like a crystal radio set that was built back in the 1920's, at a time when young hobbyists were ordering these parts from the back of pulp magazines. If I were a local radio collector, I might grab it at $75 or so, but not at $250.
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
Here are a couple of pictures for future reference.
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
Kind of neatly done really. I like it. The maker probably saw it on 1920's Pinterest
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Re: NJ Facebook cobbled Edison Standard mess
If it still works, it would be an interesting artifact... but this is the first time that I learned of the origin of Pinterest in the 1920s...
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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