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    Posted 5 months ago

    spacemissing
    (28 items)

    I bought this about 20 years ago. Ugly thing, isn't it?
    It received but sounded distorted. Hasn't been plugged in since.

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    1. keramikos, 5 months ago
      spacemissing, Cool. :-)

      History ain't always pretty. };-)

      Here's a twin:

      *snip*

      1957 Packard Bell Clear Plastic Tube Radio - Dealer Display.

      Clear radios are very rare and were used by dealers to show the insides of the radio.

      I have only seen 3 of these radios in 23 years of collecting

      *snip*

      https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/packard-bell-5r1-clear-plastic-tube-131400757

      Here's a more ordinary one with an opaque brown case:

      *snip*

      (1957)
      (Bakelite tube table radio)

      *snip*

      https://radioattic.com/item.htm?radio=0510467

      Specifications from radiomuseum dot org:

      https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/packard_be_5r1.html

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