10-20-2018, 07:47 AM
It appears that the 66S in the Gallery also has a gap between the top of the dial scale and the top of the dial opening in the escutcheon.
http://philcoradio.com/gallery2/1935c/#Model_66S
Surely Philco did not send those radios out like that. I knew that they started using larger escutcheons on Model 60 (and 38) sets beginning with the 1936 season (June 1935), with larger dial scales to match. But it appears Philco may have made the switch near the end of 1935 production, winter-spring 1935, if a 66S has the large escutcheon - unless someone enlarged the hole in the front panel of your cabinet to install a larger escutcheon. As you say you have had the escutcheon off this cabinet, did the hole appear to have been cut at the factory or does it appear to have been enlarged?
http://philcoradio.com/gallery2/1935c/#Model_66S
Surely Philco did not send those radios out like that. I knew that they started using larger escutcheons on Model 60 (and 38) sets beginning with the 1936 season (June 1935), with larger dial scales to match. But it appears Philco may have made the switch near the end of 1935 production, winter-spring 1935, if a 66S has the large escutcheon - unless someone enlarged the hole in the front panel of your cabinet to install a larger escutcheon. As you say you have had the escutcheon off this cabinet, did the hole appear to have been cut at the factory or does it appear to have been enlarged?
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
