Live Auction 2392Historical Design Reflects: The East 61st Street Years
Christie’s roundel
Lot 387

CLARENCE KARSTADT (1902-1068)

A PHENOPLAST 'SILVERTON ROCKET' RADIO, CIRCA 1938

Closed8 December 2009

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USD 6,875

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CLARENCE KARSTADT (1902-1068)
A Phenoplast 'Silverton Rocket' Radio, circa 1938
model no. 6110, manufactured by Sears, Roebuck & Co.
6½ in. (16.7 cm.) high, 11¾ in. (30 cm.) wide, 6½ in. (16.7 cm.) deep

Specialist note

cf. R. G. Wilson et al., The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941, exhibition catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1986, p. 275, no. 8.7.