Radio

MAHOGANY VENEER RADIO WITH DROP LEAF FRONT, TURNED LEGS     

Top door with decorated corners and round metal ring handles. Door folds downward, supported by two metal arms creating a horizontal flate surface. Inside on left: two sets of dials surrounded by brass plaque; below two dials for speaker volume; in the middle, a black vertical dial; on right, a speaker with three semicircular turned spindles in front. Two false doors on bottom. Back of cabinet has two caned doors. Inside are the electrical workings and electrical schematic. On the right is the rotable loop, or antenna,which is controlled by the long black vertical dial in the middle on front of the cabinet. Inside on left door is a metal black & gold label listing various patent numbers, model numbers, etc. Marked RCA Radiola 32 Super-Heterodyne.

4/7/98 moved from SWAT to Library.

Per November 2005 MGJ appraisal: circa 1927 (year this model was manufactured)

Radiola 32 manufactured beginning in July 1927. A total of 3,041 were made with a selling price of $895.00 from the Radio Corporation.