Re: FOR SALE: Radio Shack Astronaut 8

"Stinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Well, I've got to hand it to you, CW -- you stick to it like a pit bull on
a
> pot roast.  ;^)
>
> However, unless somebody logs on from US Customs, I don't think anybody
else
> on this forum is going to support your position

I'm right. That's all that matters. If no one else is willing to pull their
head  out, that is their problem. The law is a legal definition of antique.
Has nothing to do with customs other than it was defined at the urging of
them. Until they had a legal definition, there was no way to classify  "an
old thing". They didn't care if it called antique anything more than 20
minutes old,  they just needed a definition. There time frame was set by
antique dealers associations.  The law says nothing about customs. It is a
definition, period.

-- the chief reason being
> that (as you acknowledge) insisting on a 100-year vintage is absurd when
> dealing with radios.

That's true. That is why no radio should be called antique. None are old
enough.
>
> Yet, if any of us saw a big 1940's-vintage tube powered "family radio," we
> would call it an antique.

I wouldn't. I know better. I would simply call it old.

It has just become an acceptable catch-all name
> for old stuff, much like the word "Coke" substitutes for "soft drink" down
> south where I live.

People are wrong all the time. So what?
>