[SteveinAlaska]

Yup, any more Philcos and I'll have to find a dealer sign to hang on my front door!
Again as in my other finds it is unmolested and original. Wait a minute, the power cord has been patched.
Glad I retired to a life of leisure to a hobby of restoring old radios.

[Squire]

Those are cool little players! My wife has a photo of her grandmother sitting next to one. I'd like to get one someday but I'll wait for the right deal.

[NostalgiaRadioTime]

They are quite heavy to ship. Figure around $40 at a minimum, which can add a lot to the final cost if you go the eBay route to find one (and there are always examples on there available). There's one on there right now with a BIN for $29.95...with $49 shipping. I'm NOT advertising it, just citing it as an example of how shipping on one of these can cost almost twice as much as the radio itself!

[Ron Ramirez]

Isn't it funny that the cost of fuel has gone down quite a bit, yet the cost of shipping keeps going up?

[NostalgiaRadioTime]

Very true, Ron. I sent a media DVD...in a paper sleeve and bubble wrap envelope...to a friend in the UK a few weeks ago. It weighed practically nothing, and I used to be able to send these to him for only a few dollars using small packet rate. The cheapest rate now was $13!!

Getting back to the 1201's, I once found one in pretty rough shape on eBay for $10 or best offer. Shipping was $20 (at the time). I offered the seller $1.00 for the set and they accepted. It was the "somewhat" harder to find 48-1201 (9 times out of 10 you're going to find a 46-1201 because there were SO many more produced under that model number during 1946-47).