What happens
Tony Gardner, an antique dealer on Madison Avenue, sells a $20,000 dining room set to wealthy Mrs. Fletcher, then meets Claire Stafford, a young woman who asks about a Renaissance break front in another client's home. Tony offers to locate a matching piece and orders a replica from his refinisher, Otto Fennig, while arranging a shipment from Italy. Claire pays a deposit and leaves with a radiogram that Tony has prepared. The Whistler series presents this 1947 episode, first broadcast on October 15, 1947, with its story told in the first part of the episode.
New York City, in an antique shop on Madison Avenue and a refinishing workshop, in the late 1940s
Characters: Tony Gardner, Mrs. Fletcher, Claire Stafford, Otto Fennig
Listen for: Tony's conversation with Claire Stafford over the radiogram and the break front she has ordered
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.