06-10-2013, 11:52 AM
(05-10-2013, 12:59 PM)pwdrive Wrote: I guess the low value of the more common ones is down to the numbers that have survived, supply and demand and all that.
Yes that certainly has a lot to do with it. All the more sought after sets only surface on places like eBay once or twice a year perhaps, whilst the many attache case models are ever present.
If you're not aware, by collecting a specific category of 50s battery valve portable as I myself do, the average collector forms the impression that all valve portables of the period are common and therefore of low value.
As I've already mentioned, the niche area of 1950s VHF battery valve portables, offer some of the most sought after and technically challenging models to be had.
The models are from that period of the 1950s decade when VHF broadcasting first began to the widespread replacement of battery valves by transistors, 1953 to 1959 roughly, so each specific model wasn't produced in vast numbers. Plus another limiting factor at the time was that they were expensive to purchase.
They really were technical marvels of the time, packing into a small space all the circuitry and functionality offered by large table models offering VHF-FM. As such they are something quite different and very special when compared to the lowly attache case set.
Here are a few more of the VHF battery portables I have;
The Schaub-Lorenz Camping 9147
The Telefunken Bajazzo 56 and 58 models
The Akkord Pinguin U58 and U59d models
The Schaub Weekend 57U
The Nora Noraphon-Ultra
The Philips Annette LD462AB
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