WHAT'S MY RADIO OR TV WORTH ?  (REVISED SEPTEMBER 2009)
 

Please note Radiocraft does not buy or sell radios. We restore them.

However further down this page there's a table of roughly what someone in the UK might pay for your set when buying privately off our pages. These prices assume your set is complete with all its correct parts and is in good condition. If the cabinet is bakelite, it should be unchipped and with no cracks.

A reputable dealer, who does buy and sell, can be found HERE. Please mention 'Radiocraft' when contacting him.

Points to note:

  • If you don't want to sell to a dealer, there's a portal straight into the relevant Ebay section from our sale page.

  • There are two tables for values below: one for Radios and one for Televisions.

  • Dealers will not offer anything like these prices, since they have business overheads, storage, cash-flow, and often their own living to finance. But in return they can offer real expertise, the ability to take whole collections, and the convenience of a quick sale. For a hassle-free, businesslike transaction, use a dealer.

  • The prices realised at auction (or on Ebay) will generally be much less unless the item is very rare and sought-after.

  • Remember selling a radio privately can be a slow business and may sometimes take months, depending on the method used and the likely market for your set.

  • Radiocraft-restored receivers will cost substantially more since they include the added value of several days to several weeks in the workshop.

  • The tables below are purely advisory. The price you buy or sell at is strictly your decision. This information is being provided on the understanding that we cannot be held liable for any perceived losses (or gains!) resulting from a sale.

  • The term 'brown box' here means a wooden cased radio of average appearance.

  • Although most radiograms literally hold no more market value than matchwood, a very few high quality radiograms from the early '50s-and-before may be the exception; that is if they possess separate power amplifiers with rare output triodes. Unfortunately this phenomenon rests entirely on these sets' appeal to 'audiophools', who vandalise them purely to get their hands on the amplifiers.

  • Please bear in mind these tables cover British-made sets only. If you seek to value a set made elsewhere, you'll need to look elsewhere on the internet.

NEW!   Try our individual valuation service. Just £5 per individual valuation via PayPal. You'll receive three prices for your item, on a file bearing printable Radiocraft headed notepaper. This will give you a comprehensive guide as to its market value, ie. private sell, dealer sell, dealer buy.

You can rest assured the valuations are independent since we do not buy radios or TVs.

CLICK HERE NOW to email us and be sure to include full details of your item, its condition and whether it's complete. Attach a photo if necessary. You'll then be emailed a button to click-to-pay and after this the valuation will follow on very quickly.

Remember to check the charts on this page first - they may give all the guidance you really need. Prices should be regarded as a useful guide only. No liability is accepted for any outcome resulting from a subsequent transaction.

 

 
VALUE RANGE
in UK POUNDS
Convert to other currencies HERE
 
RADIOS
Mainly British-made sets are listed here.

More than 2000

 

Ultra-rare died-in-colour Round Ekcos. Sparton Bluebird & Nocturne, McMurdo Silver, Air King tombstones.
700 - 2000
  Perfect Round Ekco model AD65s. Gecophone 'Smokers Cabinet'.
400 - 700
  All other Round Ekco models (when in good condition). Emor Globe.
200 - 400
  Perfect Ferranti pre-war 'jelly mould' sets. Pye M78F. Philips superinductance 'Ovaltiney' and variants. Philco 'Peoples Set'. Ekco AC97.
150 - 300
  Pye 'Rising Sun' sets. Ekco M23 and variants. Ferranti Arcadia and 145. Many crystal sets. Exceptional pre-war 'brown boxes'. H.M.V 800. Defiant MSH 938. Bakelite radios when particularly sought-after.
75 - 150
  Perfect Bush DAC90As. Attractive or luxury pre-war 'brown box' radios. Most interesting bakelite radios. PX4 and other rare valves.
30 - 75
  Average Bush DAC90As. Average pre-war, or excellent condition post-war 'brown box' table radios.
10 - 30
  Most 1950s 'brown box' table radios, valve portable radios, '60s transistor radios and Bush TR82. Mainstream 1930s radiograms.
0 - 10
  Most 1960s 'brown box' table radios and other miscellaneous items.
ZERO
  1950s, 1960s, 1970s radiograms and stereograms, even top models in excellent condition. (Normally completely unsaleable). For more on radiograms, CLICK HERE.
 
VALUE RANGE
in UK POUNDS
Convert to other currencies HERE
 
TELEVISIONS
Mainly British-made sets are listed here.
10000 - 20000
  Unique pre-war top-of-the-range televisions, when in good condition and only one example survives. Original, complete, Baird 30-line televisors.
7000 - 10000
  Certain pre-war 'table' models and other sets which are particularly luxurious or extremely rare and in good condition. Retrovisor Imperial.
3200 - 7000
  Most pre-war console and mirror-lid televisions in good condition. Most other 1950s American early NTSC color sets. Decca Decola.
700 - 1500
  Mk III Retrovisors in mint/re-serviced condition and MkI and II models once upgraded.
A very few 1946-48 models, but only when opulent, highly sought-after and in pristine original condition.
200 - 700
  Certain 1946-9 televisions but only when complete and in good condition. Baird Townsman, Countryman and Garrick, Pye B16T, Beau Decca. Keracolour.
100 - 200
  Many 1949-1953 sets when of design interest and in good condition. Certain spherical TVs. Retrovisors in rough, incomplete or non-working condition.
50 - 100
  Most early-50s televisions, including the Bush TV22 which has halved in value in recent years. Projection-type sets. Sought-after late '60s colour televisions. Recent widescreen CRT sets.
10 - 50
  Most late-50s televisions. Transistorised miniature televisions. Original 1950s cathode ray tubes in good condition.
0 - 10
  1960s 'slimline' monochrome televisions and most old colour televisions from the '70s and '80s.

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