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Interesting about shipboard antenna/ground (ship's hull, I guess) connections. That radio/AC outlet and plug I found tossed in a box with a lot of other old electrical devices at a flea market. There would have been a short time, just in the 1930's and maybe early '40's, when people might have wanted to install one of these for their console radio. Most people just ran the antenna/ground wires through holes in the wall or floor, or under the window sash. Porcelain tubes were used through wall/floor in better installed exposed installations, seen them in old houses. I don't know whether this kind of receptacle dated back into the '20's, but it just "feels" '30's. Then built-in loop antennas came in and aerials came down off the roof.
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Reece
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