Jarret Brown, 41, purchased his very first vintage radio at a flea market when he was about 20 years old. It was a little white RCA Victor for which he paid no more than $2. Today, it lives in his ...

Ray Likar was instantly drawn to the 1947 short wave radio at the tag sale. When Likar found out the owner was asking only $25 for the unit, he snatched it up. "As soon as I turned it on, the Yankee ...

Harvey Mattel says there are two kinds of radio collectors: Those who collect for what's on the inside and those who collect for what's on the outside. He's the latter. But you would never know this ...

ARNOLD, Md. (AP) -- Dr. Steve Hansman likes to think of himself as a kind of archaeologist. But the artifacts he seeks aren't buried in the dirt. They're at flea markets and antique shops, posted on ...

The rare 1923 National Browning Drake "Regenaformer" table top radio is rich in the history of the early art, a story of collaboration, litigation, competition and excitement. This particular radio is ...

Jim Sargent, president of the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society with a few antique items, including a 1904 Columbia Standard phonograph. At left is a O'neil table model loudspeaker, and in rear is ...

Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

Long before computers, smart phones and television, the radio was the center of family entertainment and information. Now those classic old radios are being collected and restored by members of the ...

TV and radio repairman Floyd Cox in front of his VW service van, pictured with his canine assistant in the passenger seat. With the advent of KDKA, the first licensed station broadcasting to the ...

John Waldron zips and zaps around his north Austin apartment like the waves that are pulled out of the air by his amazing collection of vintage tube radios. The pops, crackles and hums that emanate ...

Michael Katz has been a collector of sorts since the age of 13, sifting through his father’s change pile after he got off work as a bus driver in New York City. One day, he found a 1903 Liberty nickel ...

The portable record player has reached middle age. That’s right, portable record players have reached the age of 50, and that means a collecting revival is on the horizon. The 1960s and 1970s mark the ...