If you're an uncompromising collector of antique technology, make sure to check out all my listings after you look at this one. I don't think you'll find a better, broader or more balanced assortment of technical antiques anywhere -- hundreds of listings each year, almost all of them featuring eye-popping "gee whiz" gadgetry in exceptional original condition. And don't forget, you can click this link to quickly add and then save me to your favorite seller list and Ebay will automatically send you updates when I put similar new listings online.
Here's a Kennedy III Portable Radio manufactured in St. Louis MO in 1923. The radio comes three good 99 tubes (in wide base adapters) and a set of Hedge re-chargeable batteries that allow the radio to be used with modern dry cell batteries (D, AA and 9 volt).
Condition is excellent, and the radio still works. It retains its original back, its original panel cover, both of its original AF transformers (they're still good) and its original leather covering (the leather carrying strap is long gone).
Original instruction card and battery hook-up card are still intact.
The Brandes headset tucked into the underside of the lid is in excellent condition. The headset still works (both drivers are good), and it has a good line cord with a phone jack that locks snugly into the clips.
Radio panel is pristine, as you can see, with no chips, no scratches, no issues. All of the signature knurled binding post nuts are original, as are all of the panel screws and corner covers.
The radio was tested this morning, and it still works very well and tunes with relative ease for an early battery set. A good set to use if you haven't had much experience at the helm of a 1920's regen.
Both output stages are good, so it will power either headphones or a horn loudspeaker.
If you want to operate the radio, you'll need to load up the Hedge batteries with good modern dry cells, wire them in series (or parallel if you're using WD-12 tubes), and connect them to the appropriate Fahnestock clips on the back panel (fabric-insulated interconnecting wires are included). Alternatively, you can use a good regulated DC power supply (I'd recommend an ARBEIII).
Also required is a longwire outdoor antenna, and a good indoor ground connection. While it will help to have had some prior experience operating a 1920's battery radio, this set is straightforward enough to be operated without too much prior experience. Measures approximately 13" x 13" x 8". Shipping weight, properly packed, will be about 20 lb.
I'm one of ebay's best known, most highly regarded sellers of antique radios, and I specialize in radios from the 1920's. I've been selling and shipping them for more than 25 years. When you purchase an antique radio from me, you'll receive a radio that arrives safely because it's been carefully packed (by me, not by some well-intentioned but nonetheless confounded, doe-eyed teenager working at the UPS store who wouldn't know a radio from a rocket ship), Sure, you can probably get a lower price from Joe and Janet Barn-Find, but when your "bargain" arrives broken, and without any hint of how you might be able to put it back together, you'll realize that you really do get exactly what you pay for.