We found this circuit in the old Mullard transistor reference manual from 1960. The circuit is powered by a single battery and the transistors are germanium common at the time.
This is an old test circuit for integrated TTL counters, feeding a Nixie tube, common at the time....
This old oscillator using germanium transistors has a high impedance headphone as inductor to...
This preamp with several inputs using germanium transistors from the time was found in Japanese...