VERY RARE PIXYTONE TRANSISTOR RADIO, 6o's? 50's? EBAY

[Stephen Brough]

please look at this transistor radio on ebay - it seems very rare to me,
have searched and been unable to find any trace of it - a VERY NOVEL SHAPE,
VERY ATTRACTIVE, SURELY EXTREMELY COLLECTABLE - have been made a very good
outright offer but it deserves a few more watchers to decide the real
value - I think it's only on 10 at the moment - been offered a lot more than
that - it's very special but you need to SEE it - [pretty urgently as well!!
SEE EBAY SEARCH PIXYTONE - I'm Stevetwosheds on ebay - steve brough
anywhere else. Thanks for helping out if you pass this on or just look to
gee me up a bit! Ta very much.

[Stephen Brough]

UPDATE! It's not a transistor radio! It's MINIATURE VALVES!!!!!!

Anyone know anything about this radio ? A potential buyer also has one in
white and reckons they were made from WOOL WINDERS - a term I've never come
across before.

So I've relisted it more accurately.

Stephen Brough <st...@musicstudio4.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cp8dmk$stb$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...

[peterk]

UPDATE! It's an unknown radio of *RARE* ugliness with ALL VALVES LOST
and no power supply!!!!!!

I'd pay £5 for it at a carboot sale but we know that eBay buyers don't
have any sense. The pictures give away very little information and
could be improved with a method known to photography experts by the
technical term of "focussing". Use the dosh you get to buy a nice
digital camera with a macro setting.

The following is all my own speculation:

It's a novelty kit radio assembled by your uncle, originating from
Russia or the far east. It uses an external mains power supply or
battery pack that plugs into the multiway socket, either of these would
have been bigger than the radio. Looks like the valves had a miniature
B9A base. If it is a radio then it's a very primitive one, it clearly
isn't a superhet. The sound quality would be poor and POXYTONE would
have been a better name.

Peter