Does anyone know how much this solid state radio phonograph would be worth? It's a Montgomery Ward Airline with BSR turntable. Let me know if you need any more pictures. Thanks in advance
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This is a super cool piece of nostalgia! Unfortunately for value, they did not held it and I have seen these sell from $5 to $100 depending on where you are and if everything is working or not.
Not working is the low end, working and pristine is the high end.
This is most parts of the US. I don't know I have ever seen one sold overseas.
I find with things like this, if you are handy and can deconstruct it and test the pieces that are moving (so to speak), people will pay more for the pieces and parts.
If you go to eBay and put BSR turntable in the search engine and go to solds you will see you can get something like $15.99 for just some of the original hardware and screws.
People want original arms, belts, screws, and such to keep their OWN going and to me that is where the money is in these!
People like the cabinets to get rid of the electronics and turn them into bars or other storage pieces. Those usually only sell for a few bucks when empty so someone can do the flip job on them and turn them into something else.
Even the manual may sell on its own!
Post back what you decide!! Thanks for asking!
These were great stereo and my parents had one when I was growing up. My father regretted getting rid of this and moving on to 8 track and cassette tapes. Later on, he upgraded to CDs. After so many years he still kept all his old records and ended up buying some sort of a new style record player where he could record his records on CDs. Anyhow the value of this item is very low I guess because of the quality and not so many people even owned this or got rid of them so very long ago. I can't find one that has sold at all and this is what really determines the value of the item and how much it is worth.
What a piece of history, not finding many sold but a few for sale. There is one on ebay that is on starting bid at$179 - here is info - www.ebay.com/
Hi,
I agree that you could probably get more money by taking it apart, but, still, this is a wonderful vintage appliance! It is absolutely beautiful.
Have a wonderful day
---Robyn
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