[bigdog]

Hi , thank you for your reply, and the information. My mother could very well have gotten the two mixed up; ie the carbide miners cap and the carbide radio. It was shortly before she died and she was talking about her childhood and the things around the homeplace. She lived on top of a mountain, in Anderson CO, TN, near a mining camp and her grandfather, and uncles cut timber for the mines. She talked alot about the battery radio they had, and of listening to President Roosevelt's chats, Grand Old Oprey, and Fibber McGee and Molly shows. I know in April 1930 they did not own a radio, but must have purchased it sometime later in the middle or near the end of 1930. She really loved that old radio, and I have been trying to research and find out the type of radio she might have had. I know it had to have been at a cost they could have afforded and most likely a table top radio. I don't believe it was one they had put together themselves. Thank you, bigdog