A
few months I wrote about radios and collecting vintage radios in both the Newsletter and on my
NOVA-Antiques Blog. It is really easy to
fall in love with old vintage radios because of their beauty and also their
nostalgia. So it was no surprise to me
when I saw on the news recently about an old antique radio that brought in more than $34,000 at auction.
This
wasn’t just any antique radio though; this was a very rare Sparton Nocturne
radio that was made in 1936 in the art deco style of the time. These
were originally made by the Sparks-Withington Company and they only made about
500 of them. The radio that sold this
past month did not even work; had it been in working condition, the radio could
have brought in more than $75,000.
