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I have a very plain late-40's Silvertone 6220 that a friend gave me to tinker with. It's also battery-powered and that fact is probably the only thing keeping me from getting it running as easily as I have some other things. Since these types of radios were sometimes marginal in performance and very often rather plain, I suppose I can understand why some would pass them by. But...I have to say, that model 4405 (1936) has a really good look for a battery set. I've run across several sets of similar vintage that I would have bought to restore, but so many folks expect antique store prices for the distraught piles of garbage they dug out of their grandpa's barn. I'd rather not contribute to that insanity anymore than I already have in the past.
It's a neat little radio, but being a battery set with missing knobs and who knows what else, I'd have to haggle it down a good bit. Who knows, it might look even better in person?
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