05-08-2007, 10:28 AM
Carl,
After I got home last night I checked the buttons from my 41-250. They are definitely brown clear through, so I'll buy the brown replacements.
I've never seen a 40-150 in person, but I just bought one (still in shipment!) that clearly has wine buttons from the pictures. All the pictures I have seen of 40-150 and 40-155 seem to have wine buttons, but sometimes you have to look hard to be sure.
I'm thinking that the 1940 models had wine buttons, but the 1941 models had brown to match the new brown swirled escutcheon. I'm inclined to believe there wasn't much, if any, "cross-coloration" between the model years, even though the guy at Radio Daze said there was.
On ebay there is a 39-25 that seems to have the same (or very similar) escutheon and buttons as the 40-150, but it is hard to tell about the button color from the pictures.
After I got home last night I checked the buttons from my 41-250. They are definitely brown clear through, so I'll buy the brown replacements.
I've never seen a 40-150 in person, but I just bought one (still in shipment!) that clearly has wine buttons from the pictures. All the pictures I have seen of 40-150 and 40-155 seem to have wine buttons, but sometimes you have to look hard to be sure.
I'm thinking that the 1940 models had wine buttons, but the 1941 models had brown to match the new brown swirled escutcheon. I'm inclined to believe there wasn't much, if any, "cross-coloration" between the model years, even though the guy at Radio Daze said there was.
On ebay there is a 39-25 that seems to have the same (or very similar) escutheon and buttons as the 40-150, but it is hard to tell about the button color from the pictures.
John Honeycutt
