I was just offered a Majestic Model 72 Tombstone complete with stand. Looks like 1928 - 30 type stuff. The woodwork is in great, great shape The electronics have not been fired up since 1935 but the chassis and power supply are intact. Even the speaker is intact!
Asking price was $200.00. Stands just at five feet tall on the stand. I can't find it in any references I have.

The same guy sold me an Atwater Kent Model 55 in a Keil table for a hundred fifty. Table is in excellent shape, and of course the AK chassis is a work of art. I need to recone it and replace a couple of tubes.

Hi Cal

There are several pages in Rider on Model 72. It uses the Model 70 schematic. See if this matches your radio?

http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Riders/GGC.htm

Norm

:I was just offered a Majestic Model 72 Tombstone complete with stand. Looks like 1928 - 30 type stuff. The woodwork is in great, great shape The electronics have not been fired up since 1935 but the chassis and power supply are intact. Even the speaker is intact!
:Asking price was $200.00. Stands just at five feet tall on the stand. I can't find it in any references I have.
:
:The same guy sold me an Atwater Kent Model 55 in a Keil table for a hundred fifty. Table is in excellent shape, and of course the AK chassis is a work of art. I need to recone it and replace a couple of tubes.

Hi,
On the Atwater Kent speaker, if the voice coil is intact and is not burned out, Depending on if you need to rework the entire cone and surround, or just the surround, the two url's below are what you are looking for.

The first url deals with the cone, and with careful trimming of the old cone, as well as judicious triming of the new cone to just fit over existing coil form with some overlap of a small lip of the old paper for glueing, the surround is the only other detail, and I have that covered on my site, which is the second url.

http://www.NostalgiaAir.org/NostalgiaAir/Articles/TheFlash/Flash03.htm

http://members.tripod.com/Art_Deco_era_radios/speaker.html

:Hi Cal
:
: There are several pages in Rider on Model 72. It uses the Model 70 schematic. See if this matches your radio?
:
:http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Riders/GGC.htm
:
:Norm
:
::I was just offered a Majestic Model 72 Tombstone complete with stand. Looks like 1928 - 30 type stuff. The woodwork is in great, great shape The electronics have not been fired up since 1935 but the chassis and power supply are intact. Even the speaker is intact!
::Asking price was $200.00. Stands just at five feet tall on the stand. I can't find it in any references I have.
::
::The same guy sold me an Atwater Kent Model 55 in a Keil table for a hundred fifty. Table is in excellent shape, and of course the AK chassis is a work of art. I need to recone it and replace a couple of tubes.