This is the 1964 Westinghouse Time Capsule radio, maybe. See my Westinghouse H-903P8GP page for a whole lot of notions on whether this is or whether this isn't.
This H-901P7GP is not at all a bad looking radio in its own right, with a white plastic speaker grille set against a dak gray cabinet body (the cabinet looks black in the photos here, but it's actually a dark gray) and a slightly contoured "coffin" shape to the cabinet rather than just a rectangle. But the tuning dial is pure mid-60s.
As I wrote on my earlier M31 transistor radio site from the 1990s,"Westinghouse's main attraction at the 1964/65 New York World's Fair was its Time Capsule, a missile-shaped metal cylinder buried 50 feet below the surface of the Westinghouse pavilion grounds. It was buried alongside another Westinghouse time capsule created for the 1939/40 NYWF 25 years earlier. Both capsules contained an assortment of objects depicting the social and technological cultures of their respective times. The two capsules were intended to survive 5000 years of rot and oxidation and then be opened by God-Knows-Who-or-What in the Year of our Lord 6939. The first cylinder was buried September 23, 1938; and the second was buried October 16, 1965. If you visit Flushing Meadow Park today, you'll find a marker showing the internment site. The '64 capsule contained 41 objects, including a ruby laser rod, a plastic heart valve, birth control pills, a Beatles 45, a bikini bathing suit -- and a transistor radio, made by Westinghouse, of course..."
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