Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.

Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.

$ 3,000.00

Tax included.

Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.

 

Tested: work perfectly

 

Italy 1960s

 

Size case:  8.5 cm W x 6 cm H x 3 cm L

Size radio: 5.5 cm W x 3 cm H x 3 cm L

 

Crown’s history traces back to 1947 and an Elkhart, Indiana minister named Clarence C. Moore (1904-1979). Moore, a longtime radio enthusiast, had spent the early part of the ’40s in Quito, Ecuador working for HCJB, a non-profit Christian broadcasting and engineering group.

 

Following his return to the United States, he felt the desire to supply Christian broadcasters like HCJB with quality electronic products. As a result, Moore founded International Radio and Electronics Corporation (IREC) in 1947 and converted a former chicken coop into the budding manufacturer’s first production facility.

 

The company’s early reputation was built on a family of rugged and compact open-reel tape recorders designed to operate reliably when used by missionaries in remote, often-primitive regions of the world.

After modifying and distributing several existing models (Magnecord, Recordio, Pentron and Crestwood) for the first couple of years, Moore obtained a patent in 1949 for a ground breaking invention: the world’s first tape recorder with a built-in power amplifier (15 watts).

Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.
Open image in slideshow, Very rare Miniature bakelite crown radio. The smallest radio in the world, without electricity, without batteries, without bulbs. It works with germanium transistors.