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What would Crosley have used a 12AT7 for? I know they made clock radios. But I came across this tube in a Crosley box. It's a single micah black plate made by who knows and rebranded. I got it for free.Is it a tube for a radio? 1960s or later?
Are Crosley radios collectors items.
I also got a free Silverline tube, but i am more familiar with them.
I have bad ears- seriously diseased, but these cheap tubes don't sound that bad driving VT-231s.
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I just won an auction for a 1946 Emerson bakelite tabletop radio on Ebay: $15.50 plus shipping. It is the exact radio that I remember having as a kid growing up the the 50s, so I was thrilled to discover that these radios are still around and kicking.I'm no expert, but AM radios from the 40s and 50s all pretty much had the same circuit and tube complement...the "All-American Five": 12SA7, 12SK7, 12SQ7, 50L6 and 35Z5. There were also circuits with 9-pin miniature equivalents of these tubes.
From what I've been able to gather, the real collectibility of these electronically-mundane radios is based on the type and condition of their cases. On the top of the tabletop radio heap are the ones made with a variant of bakelite called catalin, a shiny, translucent, swirly-marbelized plastic in various colors. These generally range from $1000 to several thousands, but they are truly beautiful works of art.
Ever the collector, I really wish I HADN'T seen several prime examples of the genre on Ebay...if you know what I mean :-)
Used in FM and TV tuners - Crosley made both...
It's an RCA or Sylvania black plate.It ain't no Telefunkin but it sounds OK. I'm not a tube taster. I've got $10 tubes that sound just as nice to me as $80 tubes.
It was just interesting to get these old rebranded ones that made me think back to my boyhood in the gulp late 40s and early 50s.
280 is the code for Raytheon - others are listed at the link below.As for antique radios - check out the German site radiomuseum.org
Or use your Internet Service Provider search feature. Enter Crosley.
Thanks.I had a Crosley clock radio that used to wake me up for school in the early 50s. I had also forgotten that we had a Crosley radio on the kitchen table.
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