• Royal Scot
• Hitachi "Lolita
...Radio"...not
• Honeytone 601
• Sharp 182
• Realtone
..."Comet"
• Avis AS-615
• Polyrad P-86
• Champtone
...Speaker
• NEC mini
• Nipco and
...Richjewel
• Fuji Weirdo
...Mystery Radio
• Hitachi 627
• little Eden
• Crown 770R
• "Portalarm"
...watch shtpkt
• Sampson SC4000
...watch shtpkt
• Vornado
• a sharp & solid
...Solid State
• Mitsubishi
...6X-148
• 2 metal-faced
...shirtpockets
• Realtone 1820
• Hitachi "Marie"
• G-L-O-R-I-A !
• a Play Boy &
...a Hamilton
• Golden Shield
• a Spica shtpkt &
...Spica coatpocket
• Matsushita
...T-50 coatpocket
• Panasonic
...shirtpocket
• Realtone 1871
• Falcon
...HK shirtpocket

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While it's true that many of the radios here only would qualify as "also-rans," there are a number of really fine radios in this gallery which should have been in the "Cool and Collected" gallery, if only I had dug them out of storage when I made the "Cool" gallery. These would be the radios found on first eleven pages in this gallery, from "Royal Scot" to "Fuji Weirdo Mystery Radio." The rest are worth looking at too, of course -- but mostly for historical context.

"Historical context"?!

Yeah -- can you hold on a minute while I climb up on top of my soap box?
OK. So. Here is a pet peeve and fear of mine I've been nursing ever since I first started collecting transistor radios 22 years ago. It goes like this:

The history -- the "historical context" of transistor radios -- will grow dimmer and dimmer as the "collectible" short list continues to shorten.

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