Look on Ebay or Etsy to see if someone is selling the logo you need.Ĭreate an account or login in order to post a comment. Thanks also for your kind words, regards marine HI Anything obscure, I cant find any connection to" arkansas" other than the the name having a nice ring to it, , another blaupunkt model was called "valencia" I can only presume that the German founder of blaupunkt Robert Bosch was wealthy enough at the time to visit many places including these 2 and just named his radiograms after them. VERY curious about this item Marine - are you (it) located in Europe as the power outlet on the wall next to this beauty would suggest? As a current resident of Arkansas (U.S.A.) I've never heard of (nor seen) anything like it, and would LOVE to know if it has any kinda sorta local connection.? Blaupunkt Concert Radiogram Arizona 57 Model 4344, valve radiogram, Collaro AT 200 10 record 4 speed changer, radio receiver, long wave medium wave short.
Thanks a million Celiene for you help, kind regards, marine there are antique radio forums out there who talk a LOT about these units. Radiograms blazed a truly pioneering path in home entertainment, gathering momentum from a post-war frugality to enthusiastically embrace new technology as it appeared and they forged the way for the more compact, multi-function home entertainment systems we enjoy today.EGADS that's gorgeous! A locksmith can make you a key. Cheaper, non-working or partially functional units can be found on the likes of Ebay and Gumtree for a few hundred dollars.īut it’s testament to their build quality and versatility that Radiograms can still be found in fully working order today, 50 years on, and their (now ‘retro’) Bakelite control knobs, Art Deco looks and handy storage spaces give them an enduring appeal. Killed by the advent of the transistor, which allowed manufacturers to make more compact home entertainment equipment, radiograms with a Blaupunkt, HMV or Braun badge on them are still sought-after collectors’ items commanding thousands. Ltd that year which boasted an automatic record changer, four-waveband radio and ‘vision receiver’ for 126 pounds sterling – very roughly equivalent to a staggering $10,000 dollars today.
#Blaupunkt stereogram tv#
With the widespread adoption of FM radio, radiograms again evolved to incorporate the new waveband, and with the advent of television in 1936, TV became the latest technology welcomed by radiogram manufacturers, such as in the prescient HMV Television Autoradiogram 902 model released by the Gramaphone Co.
#Blaupunkt stereogram series#
The General Electric Company (GEC) based in West London – the UK company that became Marconi, not the US one that was founded by Thomas Edison – sold the popular five-valve, two-waveband BC9239 for a princely 18 pounds (about $500 in today’s money) and German company Braun produced a series of gorgeous, minimalist ‘SK’ Radiograms nicknamed ‘Schneewitchensarg’, or ‘Snow White’s Coffin’ (pictured), on account of the translucent lid protecting the record player and radio, that are still coveted to this day by radio aficionados.
In Australia, companies such as Titan and the Victorian record company subsidiary Astor Radio Corporation manufactured radiograms (the latter creating some distinction and notoriety for itself by being sued by Walt Disney after dubbing one of their radios ‘The Mickey Mouse’), but most of the enduring radiogram makers hailed from the Europe, including General Electric, Breuer, HMV, Stella, Marconiphone and Philips, some of which remain eminently collectable. Models such as the Stella ST 120A and GEC BC9239 Console Radiogram even had an output for an additional, external loudspeaker. Resurrection radio has been established since 1984, and specializes in the sale, restoration and repair of vintage radiograms, turntables radios and gramophones. Wir legen größten Wert auf Qualität und Innovation und führen somit die Tradition der Marke Blaupunkt fort. But later models, dubbed ‘stereograms’ incorporated dual speakers and playback to accommodate stereo records and then came ‘autoradiograms’ which introduced automatic record changers, onto which you could load eight or more 10 or 12 inch records at any one time. Early radiograms were a simple AM radio and record player, usually accepting 7, 10 and 12 inch records at one of four speeds of 16, 33, 45 and 78rpm. But radiograms weren’t just marvels of modern design they also evolved with technological development.
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