GILBERT LOOSE COUPLER TUNED WIRELESS TUBE RADIO.
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Winning Bid:
$2,810.83
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
8.5x14.75" wooden board has early, open-mounted wireless receiving set manufactured by A.C. Gilbert in 1922 uses single tube for detector, rheostat to control tube's filament voltage and a primitive loose coupler in conjunction w/a pair of variable condensers for tuning. Designed by radio pioneer Clarence Tuska (who at the time was struggling to get his own fledgling wireless company off the ground), it was based on a Murdock radio circuit that dated back to the early 1910s, and it bore little if any resemblance to the simple, box-shaped radios that Tuska had designed for Gilbert just a year or two earlier. Gilbert introduced this model along w/their other wireless offerings in the 1922 Gilbert Year Book. Comes w/"Book Of Instructions - Gilbert Wireless" illustrated manual, which shows obvious wear w/front cover loose and front/back separated w/several edge/corner chips. Good. Radio comes w/older style headphones, we are unsure as to what period they were issued and headphones just come along. Radio is untested w/just some scattered aging/wear. Fine overall. Rare radio, especially found w/original instructions. Barry Lutsky Collection.
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