The Automatic Radio Mfg. Co. Tom Thumb Camera Radio is a novelty combination unit pairing a simple camera with a small radio receiver in a single housing. It is a mid-twentieth-century American consumer item rather than a serious photographic tool, and it is collected today primarily as a curiosity of post-war industrial design.

Auction evidence for the Tom Thumb Camera Radio is thin: the only verified UK saleroom result on file is a single hammer price of £320 from 2020, so any sense of what one is worth in 2026 rests on that lone data point rather than a settled market. Because that figure is a wholesale auction-hammer result rather than a retail asking price, dealer and online listings today can sit well above it, and condition of both the camera body and the radio components has an outsized effect on what an example sells for.