Handmade Galena Crystal Radio c.1920s–1940s Boxes and Tins incorporated into a sporting collection

incorporated into a sporting collection or used as decorative objects in a country house interior

Good antique condition with light surface wear and natural age-related crackling to the varnish

H19cm W8cm

She comes with oral provenance indicating that she once formed part of the Bletchley Museum collection

Handmade Galena Crystal Radio c.1920s–1940s Boxes and Tins incorporated into a sporting collectionA wonderfully evocative British handmade miniature crystal radio, dating from around the 1920s40s. Ingeniously constructed on a tiny wooden board, it has a hand wound cotton covered coil with connections marked A for aerial, E for earth and PHONES. It also retains a loose mineral crystal, believed to be galena, which would have formed part of the radios detector. The radio comes with its charming period Bryant & May painted metal matchbox holder, into