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Present your best items with Auctiva’s FREE Scrolling Gallery. Vintage Australian Cream Bakelite ASTOR GR Football Valve Radio. Here we have a classic Astor Cream coloured Bakelite model GR valve radio. Commonly these are known as “The football”. The radio is in going order. The volume control and tuning mechanism work as intended. This is a very simple two valve plus rectifier radio and was marketed to receive local stations. The radio does have a fair hum of background noise in use. The clear Perspex wrap around tuning band has some vertical melted burns across as shown. The case is free of chipping or cracks, the original cloth mesh that sits behind the tuning band has slumped at the top, could easily be rectified once you gained access from within? The football is 23cm across height 15cm depth 17cm weight 3.6 kilos approx. Astor made radio receivers in Victoria. The firm was innovative in that it offered radios in varying colours compared to other companies which offered the standard wood stains. During 1933, Astor produced the first of its Mickey Mouse series of radios, and in 1936 introduced its first Bakelite Mickey Mouse radio with a cartoon of the famous rodent on the dial. Early brochures featured a picture of Walt Disney and the mouse giving their “seal of approval”. However this was not done with permission from the Walt Disney Company and Astor became involved in a long-running court battle with Disney over the illegal use of the Mickey Mouse name. The result was that Astor was forbidden to use the name “Mickey Mouse” for its radios, but it continued to produce the Astor Mickey radio for the next 16 years. Then please read on! All international parcels are sent by Australia Post Registered International & Express International for parcels over 2kgs. NO CHEQUES will be accepted. Please send a question if you need clarification about any of the above, however, as we are away from the computer most of the time sourcing all the wonderful treasures on our listings it may take sometime to get back with an answer…. But we will, just be patient! In the meantime check out the FAQ list, your answer is most likely there. We pack all items to arrive in as described condition. However, we are not all perfect and human error can occur. Auctiva Free Image Hosting. Show off your items with Auctiva’s Listing Templates. Attention Sellers – Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. The item “Vintage Australian Cream Bakelite ASTOR GR Football Valve Radio” is in sale since Thursday, October 29, 2015. This item is in the category “Collectables\Radio, Gramophone, Phone\Radio\Tube Radios”. The seller is “scrimshaw01″ and is located in Camberwell, VIC. This item can be shipped worldwide.