A SE109/3 Spy Radio Set, German, circa 1943, with some RS-20 crystals, non-original headphones, and breakaway metal plug, in grey metal case, the whole within cardboard box, radio 8in x 5 1/2in x 2 1/2in (20.5cm x 14cm x 6.5cm) box 4 1/2in x 13 1/2in x 6 1/2in (11.5cm x 34.5cm x 16.5cm) Footnotes: Provenance: The John Elgar-Whinney collection of clandestine radios and cipher machines. The SE 109/3. was developed in 1942 by OKW Aussenstelle Wurzen (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces), for use by German Security Service, the ABWEHR. It went into production in 1943, and 500 sets were built during the war. After the War, examples were acquired by radio collectors, but in 1946 the Americans established a new German Intelligence Agency, the OG, which developed as the Cold War started, and they recruited old ABWEHR personnel to reactivate agents behind the Iron Curtain. The OG urgently needed radio sets and tried to buy back as many of the SE 109/3 sets they could find, and for this reason the SE 109/3 is particularly hard to find. For further information, see: www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/se109_3/index.htm For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing