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 Super Rare AWA Green Empire State :)
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 9:07:42 PM on 11 January 2023.
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I think Darryl Kerrigan says it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2DH-nKBeA
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 17 · Written at 12:52:12 AM on 12 January 2023.
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Is green an original colour for this radio?

Or has someone recently painted it?
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 18 · Written at 1:01:27 AM on 12 January 2023.
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This series came in five colours - black (the most common), brown, marbled white, white (NZ only) and jade. There is a recognised one-off mottled green one owned by a Sydney collector stamped by AWA but never fitted with a chassis at the factory. A chassis was fitted by a collector and is now a working radio.

See the book Radio Days for a photo.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
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When I see some one pay a fortune for an air guitar. The more I say that PT Barnum was a genius in realising that there was one born every day and praised the Lord for giving him the skills to exploit them.
 
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It's down to $10,500 now - it's got a bigger discount than Prince Harry's dirt file, errrr, I mean memoir.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
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