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Description: A Lafayette household radio with a cream-coloured plastic shell casing. Generally shaped like a box with rounded corners and edges.The front side has a 4 knobs located in the lower right side. Above these knobs is the radio dial face, which is enclosed in a clear plastic cover. The dial face is met…

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Description: A Lafayette household radio with a cream-coloured plastic shell casing. Generally shaped like a box with rounded corners and edges.The front side has a 4 knobs located in the lower right side. Above these knobs is the radio dial face, which is enclosed in a clear plastic cover. The dial face is metallic gold and black with white text and a geometric checkerboard graphic . The needle appears to be a bronze coloured metal. There are two rings on the dial face. The outer ring has numbers ranging from 55 to 160 on the top half, and 8.0 to 22 on the bottom half. The inside ring is only numbered on the bottom half and ranges from 2.5 to 6.0 with text at specific increments: POLICE (2.5); AVIATION (3.0); AMATEUR (4.0); AVIATION (5.0); FOREIGN (6.0). To the left of the dial face is the speaker, which is a woven, cream-coloured material set behind bars of plastic that make 90 degree angles.“Lafayette” appears in italic text within a square cartouche left, below the speaker.The back is made of wood and screwed on in the 4 corners. On the back, there are 4 rounded triangle-shaped cutouts, a large central hole, and 5 smaller holes that surround it.The radio stands on 4 black circular feet. A label on the underside reads: Lafayette SUPER HET radio receiver; SERIAL NO. 91367; MODEL NO. JS182There is a small fixed plastic handle 10 cm in length on the top.Electrical cord is black.

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