Last time we talked about vacuum tube radios from the 1920s and 1930s with cabinets that were designed as furniture or everyday items around the house such as tables or clocks. In this article we will ...

Old and antique radios are fascinating to collect. Many intriguing novelty types do not resemble radios at all but rather some item or object they were made to represent. Some were made to conceal ...

[Strider19] remembers the 90’s, and a great little novelty radio he had back then. Shaped like a computer, the radio was a typical AM/FM affair, with the monitor serving as a speaker. His original ...

Radio broadcasting started in 1920 with the report by KDKA of Pittsburgh on the Harding-Cox presidential election returns. The first receiving radios were made under an agreement with Howard Armstrong ...

Marked: "Novelty Radio mfg. Co. / St. Louis, Mo." Unit is an early crystal radio receiver with a fixed detector element. Cat's whisker wire is missing from unit under metal cap. A metal knurled know ...

The photos on this page come from the “Novelty Radio Handbook,” aimed at collectors and published by Schiffer Books. In 2007 I placed a review copy of this book in a stack of other radio-related ...