Thursday, August 23, 2007

Free to Good Home


Sweet little black lacquer-esque Magnavox console stereo in always tasteful Chinese Moderne. It looked fabulous in Perry Mason’s pad, it’ll look great in yours. Turntable doesn’t work, but the radio delivers that lovely muffled tone unique to mid-century console stereophonic equipment. Unusual petite dimensions (36 x 18 x 30 inches) make it perfect for the hipster environment tight on space, but looking for that note of Madame Nhu sophistication.


I listed this on Cragislist for free, but could n't get the picture to upload, so here it is.

2 comments:

  1. wow!
    beautiful!

    And did you post that blurb on craigslist too? Even without the picture I'd want it after reading that.

    Did you buy it or inherit it?

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  2. Why thank you, darlin. I did post the ad on Craigslist and got a lot of attention from it, but so far no takers.

    I bought it at the fabled Thrift Town on Mission Street for $25, American.

    It's tried to live in every room in our house, never worked out in any of them and now I am admiting decorating defeat and letting it return to the stream of second-hand crap. God bless.

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