30 Apr
1998
30 Apr
'98
3:16 a.m.
> >> Is the reason those old radio/phonograph
boxes are not being thrown
> >> away is that noone notice the cover and thinks it's just a pretty
> >> dresser w/o drawers :)? Also hideaway sewing machines.
As a collector of old radios from the 20s and 30s, I too have seen several
beautiful old cabinets gutted and transformed into things like wine bottle
holders.
Our most recent find in this area was a King Radio cabinet, a 20s classic,
with labelling still intact. The hinged top had been screwed down, the
finish stripped, and the handles replaced by gaudy 70s wrought-iron ones.
The interior had been made into a wine rack.
I was able to un-fasten the lid, remove the "wine rack" bits, and with a
little more work the cabinet now holds an Atwater-Kent model 10-B
breadboard radio from 1923.
It's nice to put these "modernizations" right when possible.
Kevin
The real crime is those who buy sewing machines with
pedestals and
treadles, throw away the sewing machine and turn the pedestal into an
olde worlde iron framed coffee table. I am told by a friend in the
trade that this is v. common.
There were folks who took a late-20's/early 30's radio which was built into
a beautiful wooden cabinet and turned it into a piece of furniture by
gutting it. Then there were the late 40's and early 50's TV cabinets which
met the same fate. At least I've rescued several of each of these kinds of
receivers for my collection.