This is cool! An unopened York TR-62, a virgin transistor radio from 1962 in it's original sealed bag! This TR-62 was manufactured in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Although it is a fairly common radio it is still quite attractive and solidly made with a bold gold face and masculine accents. It's value to collectors lies not in it's attractiveness but in it's untouched state; factory sealed in an official 'stamped' York transistor radio bag. You wont come across too many radios from this era that are truly 'new in the box' as the temptation to rip open the bag, to relive those feelings from your youth and pop a battery in the damn thing are almost overpowering! But I've resisted the urge so far...

I've owned this radio since 2007. I purchased it from Ron Mansfield who is another collector. He acquired it and a number of other items from a closed radio shop in the USA. He called it a time machine and he's right! It comes with the inner and outer box, leather case, leather earphone case, earphone, Hitachi dry battery, Warranty Card and Schematic diagram. The whole lot was packaged up in Japan and sent to the New York Transistor Corporation for distribution. Even the Warranty Card was printed in Japan.

The advertisement below appeared in the Battle Creek Enquirer, Michigan on the 23rd of September 1962. Whoever wrote the ad for Daniels Jewelers didn't seem to understand the concept of a 9V battery...