If you are looking for something on the unusual side, check out these 25+ Vintage Electronics items offered this week No Reserve from Radioorphanage.  This will be out last set of Auctions until September as we get ready for Spring Kutztown and Spring Brookline and then enjoy the Summer!

Here we have 15 100+ year old pieces of early radio history- All New in Original Boxes!!!

For 2024 we started an eBay Store with Many Buy it Now offerings of some of our best items. These items are Unique, 2nique, Exceptional, Museum Quality, or the Best on this Planet. 

There are about 30 Fixed Price Buy It Now offerings available right now too.

Guaranteed you will see things here you never saw before in your life!

I wish 2024 to be better for you than 2023 was. 

Face it, the only things that really matter are God, Friends & Family, and your Health.

Best, Radioorphanage

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1919 CHELSEA RADIO CO. #2 VARIABLE AIR CONDENSER .00068 MF (Breadboard style) NIB-NOS NR

Here for your consideration is a 1920s CHELSEA RADIO CO. #1 VARIABLE AIR CONDENSER .00068MF (Breadboard style) that is New In Box-New Old Stock  and offered No Reserve.

This 5” diameter by 2.5” tall VARIABLE AIR CONDENSER is complete and in excellent condition, and turns as it should. No other testing was done.

This was made by CHELSEA RADIO CO. of Chelsea, Mass.

Chelsea Radio would eventually become National Radio.

This Variable Condenser sold for $5.00 in the early 1920s.

The box is excellent.

Box and item will be packed separately to avoid damage to the box and item.

The statement on the label is a hoot: “THIS CONDENSER MUST MAKE GOOD OR WE WILL.”

I’ve never seen this in a box before in my life.


This is one of 15 auctions of New in Box- New Old Stock early 1920 radio parts.

Check the other 14 New 100+ year old pieces of Unobtanium in my other auctions!

These are relatively small and light, so I will not pack them until the auctions end.

So, if you are bidding on two or all of these, I will pack your wins together for you to minimize your shipping costs. Good Luck.

Use this part to repair or build a Radio, or it displays very well among your other early radio items.

This is truly an eye-catching piece of 100+ year old early radio history.

Museum Stuff!

As my radio friend Harvey says “Find me another one- Period!”


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BLURB, INFORMATION, and BOILERPLATE

These items all come from a SMOKE FREE, SMELL FREE Home.

RADIOORPHANAGE EBAY INFORMATION:

1) 2024 is my 26th year selling on eBay. I have bought, sold, and collected 25+ to 100+ year old Vintage Electronics for over 40 years. As I trim my collection, I try to sell a variety of interesting, hard to find Radios, Amplifiers, Record Players, Vinyl, Stereo Receivers, Speakers, Telephones, Transistor Radios, Tube Hi Fi and Audio, Television, Amateur Radio and Communication Devices, Vacuum Tubes, Telegraphs, Gaming Equipment, Early Computers and Calculators.

2)Check out all my other auctions, and our New Store with Buy It Now Items. Mark me as a Favorite Seller. September to May is my selling season. There is something here for any vintage electronics collector or nostalgia buff. 

All auctions are sold NO RESERVE. 

My current feedback is 100.00% with over 7000 feedbacks. 

I was the President of the New England Antique Radio Club and then the New England Vintage Electronics Club for six years. I stepped down at the end of 2018 to concentrate on finding new owners for the Vintage Electronics my son is not interested in.

3) I value you as a customer, and more importantly, a returning customer. 

All my auctions run No Reserve for 10 days- from Thursday to the following Sunday. 

I pack all the items on Sunday and Monday, and ship all items that are paid for on Monday, latest Tuesday. 

I reward your fast payment with excellent packing, and lightning fast shipping.

4) I have no interest in taking advantage of anyone, and I have no need to. 

If you understand what you are bidding on, and how Vintage Electronics work, you will be very happy. 

If you don't understand how to put an antenna on an old tube radio, or how to connect speakers to a Vintage Amplifier, join a local Antique Radio or Vintage Electronics Club. 

If you don't know where your closest club is, let me know, and I'll tell you. 

If you don't know how to hook up or use what you are bidding on, or know someone who does, please don't bid. 

ASK QUESTIONS about anything you don't understand. I want you to be happy.

5) Shipping is expensive. 

You can pick your item up with NO SHIPPING costs at my home 50 miles north of Boston with advanced notice. 

The eBay concept of "free shipping" is one of the 3 biggest lies. 

We are the best packers on eBay, and pack YOUR item the way we'd like to receive it-if it was being sent to us. 

We take extra care in packaging, (Bubble wrap, foam pellets, proper boxes, etc.)(NOT the wadded up newspaper trick) There is a cost for doing this right. 

Our goal is to get it to you in good shape, and for you to not have to file those fruitless shipping claims. 

Let's face it, once it's broke, it's broke. 

We have lost a significant amount of money in packaging costs over the past 25 years, and will continue to do so to get it to you in one piece.

6) YOU & US: Note that the majority of what we sell is antique, vintage, and/or collectable electronics. 

For liability purposes, Radioorphanage / Bruce Phillips accept NO responsibility for how the buyer uses or misuse of the items. 

We see you as a valued customer, and want you to be happy. 

Bid with confidence, as we are in this for the long haul- not for a quick buck. 

If you are not happy, for any reason, let us know and we'll try to make it right.

7) Questions? Please ask!