A visitor to my website provided these photos of an unusual Climax tabletop.
He says that someone called this the "Wizard of Oz" dial. A Climax collector
is offering him $3K for the set, which he is pondering. I don't see anything
about this set in my mediocre collection of radio literature, but what else
is new? No model number known.

My immediate reaction was, "For $3K I'd take the money and run!" How many
tabletops price in that range? But I really don't know anything about
Climax except that they made few radios and some of them had pretty way-out
designs for the time. I'm not crazy about this cabinet, but the dial
certainly draws attention.

To respond to me in email, kindly go to http://antiqueradio.org/contact.htm
and click my name.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

I`m with you .. if that were here and someone offered 3K$ for it i would
quicky get it down and send it off . Yikes ! its just another radio .

In article ,
"Phil Nelson" wrote:

A visitor to my website provided these photos of an unusual Climax tabletop.
He says that someone called this the "Wizard of Oz" dial. A Climax collector
is offering him $3K for the set, which he is pondering. I don't see anything
about this set in my mediocre collection of radio literature, but what else
is new? No model number known.

My immediate reaction was, "For $3K I'd take the money and run!" How many
tabletops price in that range? But I really don't know anything about
Climax except that they made few radios and some of them had pretty way-out
designs for the time. I'm not crazy about this cabinet, but the dial
certainly draws attention.

To respond to me in email, kindly go to http://antiqueradio.org/contact.htm
and click my name.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

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That's a beautiful. Never underestimate the possibilities offered by
collectors with too much money!

Dave

It looks refinished- too satin and smooth for OEM...hmmmm..

Three grand sounds like a good enough price to me! That's Walton's
territory.

John H.