1949 Art Deco Philco Bakelite Tube Radio - RARE BEAUTY!
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* 1949 PHILCO ~ MODEL 49-500 BAKELITE TUBE RADIO * It's always a great find when I come across a vintage tube radio in it's original box,but it's quite rare finding one like this Philco in new like condition with not only the original box but ALL the original packing materials & manual right down to the brown wax paper it came wrapped in from the Philco factory. After inspecting all the contents and details of the radio it's obvious to me this radio spent the majority of it's last 58 years in the box and is as close to a museum quality piece as you will find. Even the original cord is still in excellent condition and not brittle at all,not to mention the radio still retains all of the Philco vacuum tubes. Of course just sitting for all of these years the electrolytic filter caps were dead so t was a loud filter hum. So in order to restore it to excellent playing condition but keep it as original as possible I did my usual electronic restoration but removed all the original capacitor cores and installed all (7) new capacitors inside the original cap sleeves thus keeping the chassis work in it's original state visually(see pic). I will include all the old capacitor cores as well as the electrolytic cap for the new owner. I took plenty of photo's indoors & out so you can see for yourself just how pristine this radio is. The beautiful
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