{"id":29408,"date":"2017-12-01T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29408"},"modified":"2017-12-01T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:49:14","slug":"british-vintage-wireless-society-royal-wootton-bassett-auction-3rd-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/british-vintage-wireless-society-royal-wootton-bassett-auction-3rd-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"British Vintage Wireless Society: Royal Wootton Bassett auction 3rd December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/British-Wireless-Auction-e1512131623491.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29409\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/British-Wireless-Auction-e1512131623491.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Kris Partridge, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think you might like the [link] below, I\u2019m thinking that the British Vintage Wireless Society\u2019s auction would be of much interest to your readership:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bvws.org.uk\/auctions\/photos.php\/2017-12-03-royal-wootton-bassett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bvws.org.uk\/auctions\/photos.php\/2017-12-03-royal-wootton-bassett<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow&#8211;thanks, Kris! What a fantastic array of vintage radios.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so happy I don&#8217;t live anywhere near\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Wootton_Bassett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Wootton Bassett<\/a>&#8211;the last thing I need right now is that sort of temptation! I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;d walk away with a few vintage goodies if I attended.<\/p>\n<p>Kris also points out one radio in particular: the\u00a0Televisor-type chassis and Schaub Lorenz Music-Center (48 hour recording Radio):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29411\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center-624x326.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schaub-Lorenz-Music-Center.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He included a link to this video of the\u00a0Schaub Lorenz Music-Center in action.\u00a0 An amazing bit of mechanical engineering:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06MhpIaJnPA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=06MhpIaJnPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Kris Partridge, who writes: I think you might like the [link] below, I\u2019m thinking that the British Vintage Wireless Society\u2019s auction would be of much interest to your readership: https:\/\/www.bvws.org.uk\/auctions\/photos.php\/2017-12-03-royal-wootton-bassett Wow&#8211;thanks, Kris! What a fantastic array of vintage radios.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so happy I don&#8217;t live anywhere near\u00a0Royal Wootton Bassett&#8211;the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,43,4796],"tags":[6126,6665,5584,6666,681],"class_list":["post-29408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-auctions","tag-british-vintage-wireless","tag-kris-partridge","tag-schaub-lorenz-music-center","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7Ek","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49098,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/check-out-the-british-vintage-wireless-society-auction\/","url_meta":{"origin":29408,"position":0},"title":"Check out the British Vintage Wireless Society auction!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares a link to the following radio auction via the British Vintage Wireless Society: https:\/\/www.bvws.org.uk\/auctions\/photos.php\/2021-06-04-online-auction Kris notes: The online auction link, above, has 1499 photos of 310 lots. 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