{"id":2386,"date":"2009-09-08T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/early-crystal-set-in-altoids-like-box\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:12:34","slug":"early-crystal-set-in-altoids-like-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/early-crystal-set-in-altoids-like-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Crystal Set in Altoids-like Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Even way back then, British homebrewers had an affinity for Altoids-like boxes!
David, M0VTG, sent me the above pictures, and this description:<\/p>\n

I enclose some pictures of a kit produced in the early to mid 1900s of crystals and a holder for use in a crystal radio; unfortunately the cats whisker is missing! The box is marked:<\/p>\n

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Front: NEUTRON Back: Neutron Ltd<\/div>\n
Trade Mark Sicilian House<\/div>\n
Wireless Crystal Southhampton Row<\/div>\n
1\/6 Phone Museum 2017<\/div>\n
Catswisker and<\/div>\n
Directions Enclosed<\/div>\n
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The 1\/6 refers to the price (one shilling and six pence) pre-decimalization and converts to seven and a half pence today (although the half pence has been dropped thorough inflation). I should add that the box measures about an inch and a half in length.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even way back then, British homebrewers had an affinity for Altoids-like boxes! David, M0VTG, sent me the above pictures, and this description: I enclose some pictures of a kit produced in the early to mid 1900s of crystals and a holder for use in a crystal radio; unfortunately the cats whisker is missing! The box … Continue reading “Early Crystal Set in Altoids-like Box”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,100,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-radio","category-old-radio","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}