Vintagebob wrote:

I am helping an elderly gent sell of his items before going to a care
facility.

He has a Signal Corp MK II No. 19 wireless set dated Sept 1944 from
Philadelphia which he purchased in 1951 and was new then. It seems to
have every conceivable piece of equipment it could have come with.
Including the spares box with a Morse Key, variometer, signal generator,
amplifier, grill cover two sets of unused 50' cloth-covered wire, two
microphone marked #7, a power unit, head phones, brackets and much more.
It appears almost mint. NO damage or rust stored ina dry environment.

He did tell me he converted it to 120V in 1951, listened then lost
interest and put it away.

What can or should I do to sell it? Yes, I have pics of everything

There is a Wireless No. 19 set mailing list on Yahoo, where a lot of the
users of those things hang out. That's the first place I would try.

If it's a complete set you might consider Ebay as well.

These radios were a British design, but a lot of them were made in the US
and in Canada for lend-lease to the UK and Russia at the beginning of the
war. They are, actually, pretty godawful radios. Receive IF wide as a barn.
Thousands of the things flooded the market after the war; there were ads in
QST for the complete system including the dynamotor for $50.

Because there were so many of them made, I don't think you'll get a lot of
money for the set even if it's in very good condition. But a lot of people
used them until they could afford something better, so you might find some
nostalgic folks out there.

If yours is anywhere in the mid-Atlantic region, I would like to take a look
at it. Not to buy it, but I have a No. 19 that has been badly butchered and
I'd like to see the filament wiring layout on a good one.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."