Collectors Guide To Antique Radios: Identification and Values (Collector's Guide to Antique Radios)

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Summary: Why is this the standard guide?
Review: Given there really are no other guides to tube radios out there. Is that any reason to praise it?

1. Far two few photos.

2. Inconsistant descriptions.

3. Some common radios not listed.

4. Prices are beyond ridiculously low. (They may be correct if your buying a radio from your Grandmother in Idaho. )

5. No history or information on the manufacterers.

Unfortunately this is really all there is, and if you collect tube radios you have to have something.

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Summary: Good Antique Radio Reference Helps You Identify Your Finds
Review: This 248 page softbound volume is the 4th edition of the popular guide. If features more than 600 full color, sharp photos and covers over 5,000 models. There is a useful introduction to the collectible, and it provides basic radio terms and descriptive information. Everything is listed by company. It appears to be a very comprehensive listing, but there are probably many models that do not appear. I'm certain no book has every model of all of the radios made. Items are easily located, and every major maker is included. Prices are updated for 1997. I'm a novice in this area of collectibles, but it appears to me that the book is quite comprehensive. It has been of value to me and I'm sure will be to others.

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Summary: Collectors Guide to Antique Radios, 5th Edition
Review: Without a doubt this Guide is another valuable asset to the antique radio collector, as have been all of the Sluser's previous editions. Attend a club swap meet, and you'll see fellow collectors with this author's book under their arms, on the seat of their vehicles, always "close at hand." Just a guide, never the "last word'" as some antique dealers like to think, we collectors alike have always used Sluser's books as a reference to identify those radios not often seen in our geographical area. For this use alone, it is worth the price many times over. Each new edition has many new and updated pictures/information, not found in previous editions, so it's always best to try and collect the older editions, too.

Whether you're a "sometimes" collector or "on fire" for the antique radio hobby, this book is more than a "must have," hey you've "got to have" it! Add this valuable tool to your reference library and stay on top of your hobby. Enjoy this book and happy collecting!