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scottswim · Apr 19, 2002 at 6:58 PM

As a collector of antique headphones and radio equipment I have posted a Gallery of Old headphones with over 100 headsets pictured from the era of 1914-1950. Most of these were used for radio telecommunications in the early days of radio.
See at http://members.aol.com/oldradjo/gallery.html
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lextek · Apr 19, 2002 at 10:17 PM

Some of those would be nice to display in a music room!!!

Lextek

joelongwood · Apr 19, 2002 at 10:19 PM

Welcome to Head-Fi, and thanks for the site, scottswim! Great looking stuff......looks like a helluva lot of Grados in one place.

Clubkill · Apr 19, 2002 at 11:16 PM

They sure liked their closed cans.....

a must for radio I guess.

Thanks for the link!

lextek · Apr 19, 2002 at 11:18 PM

Anybody know a source for some of these old cans??

Lextek

setmenu · Apr 20, 2002 at 12:31 AM

Hi Scott
Welcome to head-fi.
I am glad you chose to share your collection with everybody here,
I enjoyed looking at them earlier.
This is a great place to share our many and varied headphone
passions.

Setmenu

KR... · Apr 20, 2002 at 12:53 AM

Welcome to Head-Fi scottswim!

I always got a kick out of your website, and I am glad you decided to join us here.

Have fun!

timoteus · Apr 20, 2002 at 1:25 AM

What fun

A Briggs & Stratton model? How'd they get a 4-cycle in that itsy bitsy earcup?

And a Stromberg-Carlson. They made carburetors. All that gasoline would keep out the earwax for sure!

scottswim · Apr 20, 2002 at 12:16 PM

Hi Lextek,
I got most of the antique headphones at hamfests, radio swap meets, and now I get a lot off Ebay. It is a chore to slog through the thousands of listings on ebay to find the antique ones but the search engine has an exclusion feature that helps.
Scottswim

Jeff Guidry · Apr 20, 2002 at 12:38 PM

Do you get any requests from TV/movie people to use your headphones as props in period movies? To make some extra money, you might want to let it be known to L.A. prop houses that you've got this collection. The prop masters for O Brother Where Art Thou could have used a guy like you...

john_jcb · Apr 20, 2002 at 2:57 PM

Great pictures and site. Thanks

I also liked the easy to change cable features on many of the HPs.

John

scottswim · Apr 22, 2002 at 4:48 PM

Hi Jeff,
Yes, I have sold a few to stage companies doing plays set in the 1920's or 30's. Thanks for the suggestion about the prop houses, I will try to hunt them down. Scott

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