| | WHAT'S
MY RADIO OR TV WORTH ? (REVISED MAY 2012) |
| | 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. 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.
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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. Please DO NOT send photo attachments greater than 500KB in size,
or they will be deleted and will never reach us! 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. |
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RADIOS
Mainly British-made sets are listed
here.
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More
than 1,500
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Ultra-rare died-in-colour Round Ekcos. Sparton Bluebird
& Nocturne, McMurdo Silver, Air King tombstones. High
class 1940s radio-gramophones with PX4 or PP3/250 output
valves. |
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700
- 1,500
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Perfect
Round Ekco model AD65s. Gecophone 'Smokers Cabinet'. Colonial
Globe. |
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400
- 700
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All
other Round Ekco models (when in good condition). Emor
Globe. |
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200
- 400
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Perfect
Ferranti pre-war 'jelly mould' sets. Pye M78F. Philips
superinductance 'Ovaltiney' and variants. Philco 'Peoples
Set'. Ekco AC97. |
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150
- 300
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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. |
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75
- 150
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Perfect
Bush DAC90As. Attractive or luxury pre-war 'brown box'
radios. Most interesting bakelite radios. PX4 and other
rare valves. |
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30
- 75
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Average
Bush DAC90As. Average pre-war, or excellent condition
post-war 'brown box' table radios. |
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10
- 30
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Most
1950s 'brown box' table radios, valve portable radios,
'60s transistor radios and Bush TR82. Mainstream 1930s
radiograms. |
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0
- 10
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Most
1960s 'brown box' table radios and other miscellaneous
items. Almost all radiograms and stereograms, even
top models in excellent condition. (Normally completely
unsaleable unless vendor can deliver). For more on radiograms,
CLICK HERE. |
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TELEVISIONS
Mainly British-made sets are listed here. |
| 15,000
- 30,000 | |
Unique pre-war top-of-the-range televisions, when in good condition and only one
example survives. Original, complete, Baird 30-line televisors. |
| 10,000
- 15,000 | | Certain
pre-war 'table' models and other sets which are particularly luxurious or extremely
rare or in very good condition. Retrovisor Imperial. | |
3,000
- 10,000
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Most pre-war console and mirror-lid televisions in good condition. Most other
1950s American early NTSC color
sets. Decca Decola. | | 700
- 1,500 | |
Mk III Retrovisors in mint/re-serviced condition and MkI and II models once upgraded.
A very few 1946-48 televisions, but only when opulent,
highly sought-after and in pristine original condition.
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| 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. Bush TV22. Retrovisors in rough, incomplete or non-working condition. |
| 50
- 100 | |
Most early-50s televisions. 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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