LOT A - RADIO NEWS 1922-1925 - 11 issues.
Beautiful large-format magazine edited by Hugo Gernsback (of Riders' Manual fame).
Large ads in the style of Saturday Evening Post etc. Some covers loose and damaged.
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LOT B - QST 1922-1925 - 38 issues.
Missing around ten numbers for this four year period. Widely regarded as the premier magazine of
the period, read around the world (especially here). Crammed with descriptive/technical articles giving unique insight into the state
of radio during the period, plus many, many adverts for early commercially produced radios, phones, and speakers.
Some covers missing, otherwise complete, with 1922 bound separately.
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LOT C - POPULAR RADIO 1923-1925 - 17 issues.
Covers the same period, with great articles and an even greater body of advertising,
some of it quite spectacular. Shows all those early Crosley, RCA, Grebe, Atwater Kent etc radios imported and used in Australia during
that decade.
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LOT D - RADIO IN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 1924-8.
26 issues, 9 without front cover, otherwise all there.
Official organ of the WIA, this one covers material of the early broadcast period well. By 1929 it had been incorporated in the
Wireless Weekly. SOLD
LOT E - THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS & RADIO WEEKLY 1925-6.
13 Issues, six of those original and seven quality photocopies.
Another fine Australian magazine, with great ads and excellent articles.
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LOTS F-H - WIRELESS WEEKLY 1926-1939.
The first & most popular of Aussie radio magazines. These do NOT all have perfect, intact covers, but some are good, and all are complete
for purposes of research, provenance, adverts, and other info. I'll picture some of the better ones from each lot. They include ads for
most of the major makers & retailers of the 20s & 30s, up until the changeover to Radio & Hobbies in 1939. Sold in three tranches:
LOT F - 1926-1929 (29 issues)
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LOT G - 1930-1936 (33 issues)
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LOT H - 1937-9 (37 issues).
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LOT J - RADIO NEWS 1926-1928, 19 issues.
More of Hugo Gernsback's beautiful large-format magazine. Large ads in the style of
Saturday Evening Post etc. Some covers loose, a couple missing.
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LOT K - THE LISTENER IN 1926-1934. 28 issues.
For advertising purposes, TLI was a Melbourne based and focussed publication,
but the magazines resonate across the country - all of the same manufacturers, imported radios & speakers etc.
More useful info for the collector. Seven of these have covers wholly or partially missing.
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LOT L - POPULAR RADIO WEEKLY 1926-1928. 26 issues.
Although the magazine originated in Melbourne, this collection contains only its NSW Edition. They packed so much info and advertising
into the magazine's 60-70 pages that here once again is a mine of material for provenance, display, technical detail and research.
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GROUP II - VARIOUS SOCIETY/CLUB JOURNALS
LOTS M,N & O - THE OLD TIMERS' BULLETIN 1966-2002.
The Antique Wireless Association's official journal - the longest lived of all
contemporary journals and most highly regarded. This small magazine packs a punch way beyond its size. Its mast-head accurately reflects
the contents - "For the Collector, Historian and Old Time Wireless Operator". A large collection, selling in three tranches:
LOT M - 1966-1987 (21 issues) 7 water damaged but usable, others good. These earlier numbers of the OTB now sought after.
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LOT N - 1987-1994 (28 issues)
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LOT O - 1995-2002 (32 issues)
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LOT P - ANTIQUE RADIO CLASSIFIED 1984-2002
This magazine, with articles from the US and around the world (Australia included) is a mine of info.
It began as a US classifieds magazine, and grew from there into an absorbing mix: specialist articles on everything from
crystal sets through breadboards and cathedrals to trannies, novelties, and coloured catalins/bakelites.
Also brought auction & meet reports from around the world, as well as retaining a solid classified section.
Close to 200 issues all up - hard to split up, so say.
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LOT Q - VARIOUS CLUB JOURNALS
- these come from the Northwest Vintage Radio Society (21 issues), the Canadian Vintage Wireless Association
(16 issues of their magazine The Cat's Whisker), and the Californian Historical Radio Society's journal (8 issues).
Again, crammed with useful material.
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LOT R - THE ANTIQUE RADIO GAZETTE 1979-1993 - 19 issues.
Magazine of Antique Radio Club of America.
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LOT S - THE HORN SPEAKER
60+ issues from the 1980s, on a kind of cheap newsprint, opening out to tabloid format.
They are nevertheless packed with info, especially stories around significant figures in radio.
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LOT T - THE COMPLETE LANKSHEAR
You might know the yellow covered Electronics Australia "Vintage Radio"
publication, which contains a number of articles by the Kiwi guru Peter
Lankshear. If so you'll know how useful, readable and informative they are.
He wrote for E/A from June '88 to September '96. Instead of the dozen or so
articles collected in the yellow book, here is the complete collection of
his columns (he stopped in 1996 with number 100). All in plastic sleeves,
neatly extracted from original magazines. A gold mine for collector and
restorer alike. A bonus folder with another thirty or so later Vintage Radio
columns thrown in.
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NOTE WELL!! I may not have the space to take all of these to the auction. Please contact me well beforehand with any specific interests, and I'll make sure to take them.