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Vintage Radios and More at Benefit Shop Foundation Auction

MOUNT KISCO, NY – Some collectors collect one type of thing they are Highlights include an RCA Victor fireplace radio, having intricate
passionate about while others have room in their hearts—and homes—for wooden detail and measuring 50 by 60 by 25 inches, that comes with acces-
more than one collection. For decades, a Brooklyn couple collected vintage sories and fireplace tools ($500-$1,500) and a vintage Zenith Stereophonic
radios and phonographs, Roseville pottery, Asian porcelain, blue and white record player and radio console table ($200-$2,000) built into a cabinet,
china, “Gone With the Wind” lamps, and much more, filling their home to offered with several vintage records.
showcase those items they loved. Radios made with Catalin are highly desirable and perhaps none are
Now that they have passed, their collection can move into the homes of more iconic than a FADA Model 1000, which debuted in 1941, epitomiz-
new collectors. The first grouping from their collections will be crossing the ing the Art Deco streamlined design of this era. Also crossing the block here
block at The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. during a Red Carpet auction will be not one, but two FADA Model 1000 Bullet radios in butterscotch
on Wednesday, February 24, at 10 a.m. and red that are among the top design icons of the Twentieth Century and
This couple had so many items in their collections that many more of highly prized by radio collectors. Further on, look for a Crosley 10-136E
their prized possessions are still being cataloged, with enough to spill over ($100-$600) from 1950 made of Bakelite in an ebony and gold case; an
into a second auction in March. RCA Victor 9X572 tube radio, circa 1949; a Mighty Majestic Monarch Of
The Radio Collection The Air shortwave radio in black Bakelite ($200-$500), Model 55, made by
“They collected everything under the sun and never threw anything Majestic in 1937-39; and a Crosley American Overseas 66TC wooden tube
out,” said Pam Stone, owner and founder of The Benefit Shop radio ($200-$500), ca. the 1940s, 16 by 10 by 8 inches.
Foundation, Inc. “You could describe this as a Other Highlights
‘curated’ kitsch collection, featuring vintage This auction boasts many desireable
radios from the 1920s through the 1980s.” items from this couple’s list of collec-
Radios are an iconic piece of Americana, tions, from sculpture to fine jewelry.
and the vintage radios included in this auction The monthly Red Carpet sales
come in all forms of construction (with tubes feature choice collections of antiques
or transistors) and made from different mate- and unique collections to its bidders
rials (from Bakelite and Catalin to wood). with a mission of “to donate, to dis-
Those prominently featured range from small cover and to do good.” The founda-
tabletop models to larger cathedral style models tion is a registered 501(c)3 non-
and even one that looks like a fireplace mantel. profit. The auction gallery is at 185
Many are from companies that once were Kisco Ave, Suite 201. For more infor-
industry leaders but are now history footnotes, mation, visit thebenefitshop.org or call
such as Zephyr, Crosley, Majestic, Emerson, 914-864-0707.The auction gallery is at
and Sentinel. 185 Kisco Ave, Suite 201.

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