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KENNEDY (JOHN FITZGERALD), A SONY TRANSISTOR RADIO GIVEN TO KENNEDY AS A GIFT BY GUNJI HOSONO DURING HIS PRESIDENCY
with a typed letter signed by Evelyn Lincoln on White House stationery, March 4 1988, confirming the provenance, together with a two-sided card with notes taken by JFK during a cabinet meeting. (2) Radio 18.5cm wide
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Provenance: John F. Kennedy; Evelyn Lincoln, retained after his assassination on 22 November 1963; Robert L. White, collector of JFK material and friend of Evelyn Lincoln, to whom her letter is addressed; presumably included in his sale, Guernsey's, New York, 15-21 December 2005.
The two-sided card, Guernsey's, New York, 15-21 December 2005, The Robert L. White Collection, Lot 607.
A KENNEDY MEMENTO. Evelyn Lincoln, describing herself here as 'Personal Secretary to the late President', relates how 'Early in his administration President John F. Kennedy was visited by a friend from Japan, who brought with him several transistors that were at that time being manufactured in Japan by the Sony Corporation...Kennedy kept these transistors on his desk in the Oval Office for several days...Later these items were discarded, however, one of those discarded transistors, which you now have in your possession, is this brown, lid controlled Model TR-624..'
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