{"id":12333,"date":"2018-08-11T06:23:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T10:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2018-08-09T23:21:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T03:21:32","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"and now for something completely different"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Schiffer Publishing’s
History of Philco Radios<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. No, not the Flying Circus<\/a> routines of Monty Python<\/a> fame. A couple of decades ago I dealt with a small private publisher in Pennsylvania called Schiffer Publishing<\/a> Ltd. I was interested in the quilting books they published. The books would sell well in my store. Later, I sent for a catalog and to my delight, I saw that while their main business was military history books, they also published a few \u00a0books for collectors and included a small collection of books for collectors of phonographs and radios. I bought a few about brands or devices of interest to me. One was Philco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid, my mother had a call from a neighbour who had an old radio for me. I took my wagon across the street and up the long sloping \u00a0driveway to the kitchen door. A strange radio with a heavy speaker on top was sitting in a wooden box waiting for me. That night, I was pleased to discover that it worked and was very sensitive (all radios of that period were AM which meant amplitude modulation). It turned out to be a Philco 90-A radio (made in 1931 as I learned long after it was taken apart). Old Jack Gribble, a radio repairman in town gave me a schematic diagram for it. Years later I bought a Philco SB-100 transistor which worked up in the 10 meter short-wave band and made a tiny tuner, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n

The other day, I had an email from Schiffer Publishing<\/a> that brought the old radio to mind again. \u00a0Their current catalog also has a handful of photography books they publish – which may be why I was emailed at the phsc address!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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