Bakkelite beauties

In the 1920s, the Italian company Velox (based in Ferrara) set out to make super-espresso machines that were powered by electricity, a novelty at the time. In the 1980s Rotterdam's biggest collector of old bakkelite radios, my dad, stumbled on two cute Velox models on a market in Paris. Some time later, in 1999, he passed them on to me, because he knew I adored them. This week, and through eBay, I managed to get my hands on a black model from – I surmise – the late 1960s. Aren't they cute? RHM