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Another Philco 515 found!
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Quote:A third Philco 515 "Impressionistic" has surfaced.
Actually, I firmly believe the third 515 is the same 515 that sold on the Phorum. I recognize the photos, and remember the owner of the photos telling me he sold it here. So in reality there exists only two, to the best of my knowledge. I was very involved in bringing the existance of this second 515 to light.

Short story on this event: One day out of the blue I received an email from someone (in CA!) requesting my assistance in verifying that he had a 515. He was/is not a radio collector and was considering tossing it in the trash he said, adding his wife & he had grown tired of looking at it. I found it hard to believe another set existed after the extensive search I had conducted decades ago that included asking many museums and big names in the collecting world if they had ever seen one; (which is how I found mine).

Over a period of a few months of my sending questions and requests for photos of specific areas of the 515, I informed him that in my expert opinion it was very likely he did indeed have one. I also (at his request) offered what I thought the value was. Being poor I couldn't afford to buy it, but being an honest sort I had to give him a true price range.

I truly regret not somehow finding a way to purchase it, for it has ended up in the hands of a very evil person, Icon_twisted who at this moment is probably stripping a 511 (Spanish Brown) and using his expert artistic ability to produce a fake 515. This was his plan I was told by an insider. And to think this guy is the President of a radio club Icon_exclaim just turns my stomach. Icon_sick In fact he has already done this with several of the so-called Philco "flower" sets. It is so wrong. So wrong.

"Ice cream has no bones"


Messages In This Thread
Another Philco 515 found! - by Ron Ramirez - 02-07-2011, 05:33 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Steve Chambers - 02-07-2011, 09:08 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Ron Ramirez - 02-07-2011, 09:37 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Jayce - 02-08-2011, 02:30 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by TA Forbes - 02-08-2011, 09:41 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Philco1928 - 06-13-2011, 07:36 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Arran - 06-14-2011, 12:05 AM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by BILL - 06-14-2011, 10:13 AM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by FStephenMasek - 06-14-2011, 08:45 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Ron Ramirez - 06-14-2011, 09:19 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Arran - 06-15-2011, 12:33 AM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by FStephenMasek - 06-15-2011, 05:59 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Arran - 06-15-2011, 11:58 PM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Marsupial - 06-16-2011, 12:18 AM
Re: Another Philco 515 found! - by Ron Ramirez - 06-16-2011, 06:40 AM



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