1919 DeForest Type RS-200 Utility Receiver * Engraved Panel * X-Scarce Radio
$5,000.00
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More or less idled during World War I, the DeForest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co. re-entered the radio market in 1919 with a line-up of receiving apparatus ranging from the very small (a 2 1/2″ high crystal detector stand) to the very large (a 15-panel Unit Receiving Set).
Also in the mix were various specialty components, including a Jeweler’s Time Receiver (designed to tune government time signals from Arlington VA on 2655 meters), a portable 3-part transmitter known as the Radio Telephone and Telegraph Oscillon Transmitter, and this interesting, seldom seen item: an RS-200 Utility Receiver, based on the Jeweler’s Time Receiver, but with the ability to tune on any wavelength — from 100 to 25,000 meters.
Condition is excellent, with a clean panel, a fumed oak cabinet that retains its glossy original finish, and an undamaged celluloid dial skirt. The little celluloid pointer is chipped, but the receiver is otherwise as nice as you could want. And unlike the few other surviving examples, the panel of this RS-200 is beautifully engraved, making it an even greater rarity.
The radio is working and comes with 2 plug-in coils, 2 tubes — a tipped, amber glass Moorhead display tube (open filament) and a tipped, good emissions UV-200 detector tube — and an original copy of DeForest’s catalog D, in which the receiver is featured.
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