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radiopup · **Posted:** Jan Tue 03, 2012 12:32 pm

There is some neat stuff in this thread.
Here's a Styvania Tube display.
It's been repurposed to hold tube boxes, some batteries, and some empty parts boxes given to me by Mark Oppat

Spivey · **Posted:** Jan Tue 03, 2012 4:06 pm

Well done Radiopup!. Also a very nice Capehart sign,Tim.

Lloyd

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Tue 03, 2012 4:33 pm

A couple more. This an Amos 'n Andy cigar box and an Amrad variocoupler box.

Spivey · **Posted:** Jan Tue 03, 2012 5:46 pm

Are they Cuban?

Interesting items, Merrill.

Robert Lozier · **Posted:** Jan Wed 04, 2012 2:56 am

Here are two of mine... The Crosley sign is 14" x 30" and dates from 1925/26
The Cunningham sign is 12 5/8" x 9 1/8" - copyright 1925

I like these signs because rather than the usual lithograph, these are silkscreens using lacquers that retain their 'punch' over the decades.

Robert

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Wed 04, 2012 11:55 am

Gee Robert, I was wondering where those were. I must have left them at the CCAWA meet.
You can return them next time I see you. (Don't I wish)!
Ah those glory days at Canandaigua....
You must be the only guy on here who has been collecting as long as I have and maybe longer.
We should have bought more stuff back then.

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Wed 04, 2012 7:44 pm

This is an very early Grebe dealer sign which is about the size of a car license plate.

Alan Douglas · **Posted:** Jan Wed 04, 2012 9:33 pm

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Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Wed 04, 2012 10:08 pm

Nice piece Alan. I'm glad to see you have left outhouses and gone back to radios.
It's too cold for outhouses this time of year, anyway..
This is a Cunningham banner which hangs in the barn making it difficult to get a
good shot without standing on the soft top of my 36 Ford coupe.

Alan Douglas · **Posted:** Jan Thu 05, 2012 4:08 am

Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Merrill's garage"? No, wait, that was San Francisco.

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Thu 05, 2012 5:38 pm

I think it was Mark Twain. He has visited a few times.
Here is an Amos 'n Andy candy box that my folks had in the house. They didn't throw much away either.
1930 I would guess.

Eliot Ness · **Posted:** Jan Fri 06, 2012 12:07 am

Sticking with the Amos 'n' Andy theme here is a fan with WSM's Jamup and Honey:

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Fri 06, 2012 9:03 pm

This is a flanged sign.

Marconiman · **Posted:** Jan Sat 07, 2012 4:04 am

This is a flanged sign, circa 1919.

Nick D. · **Posted:** Jan Sat 07, 2012 5:15 am

Gilbert put out radios too!?!?!?

wiscojim · **Posted:** Jan Sat 07, 2012 5:17 am

Nick D. wrote:

Gilbert put out radios too!?!?!?

http://books.google.com/books?id=M5SO7F ... ss&f=false

Alan Douglas · **Posted:** Jan Sat 07, 2012 3:18 pm

Gilbert made the crystal set shown in that magazine, and a one-tube breadboard set. They were designed by Clarence Tuska before he went into business for himself. Tuska wanted to make good stuff while Gilbert insisted on toys and cheap construction. The crystal set has a cardboard panel faced with a thin sheet of celluloid, and brass paper fasteners for switch points. There are photos in Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s, vol.3 (one of the photos is of Merrill Bancroft's breadboard).

Spivey · **Posted:** Jan Sat 07, 2012 5:48 pm

Some more radio memories......

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Mon 09, 2012 8:50 pm

This is the set in Alan's book.

Merrill Bancroft · **Posted:** Jan Mon 09, 2012 8:53 pm

A lighted Sylvania TV sign from the Halolite days.

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