[Arran]

Haven't had the pleasure of dealing with him but I did notice that there are a bunch of small nails hammered into that cabinet to hold it together. The set is a trf set and with that being said I don't know if they fair very well as you go up in frequency. My thought is that as you go up in fq the selective will suffer. The only thing it has to add to the selectively is the Q of the tuned circuits. Short of add regeneration to the detector I don't know of any other way to maker sharper.
Terry

That fits, it's also been poorly refinished, he's as bad as some of the dealers on radio attic for pedaling radios, that have been badly refinished by slobbing cheap varnish on with a tar brush. I don't know if he was the one that pounded the nails in the cabinet but it certainly isn't beyond a guy like him who seems to specialize in selling garage sale specials like that to unwitting customers for top dollar.
Those were cheap sets to start with, cute as they are, the extra band will probably work but there isn't much to listen to on it once you get past 1700 KC except maybe WWV if it will tune up to 2500 KC. Like I said the extra band was what they used to call the police band but these days it's just an extension of the AM broadcast band since it originally ended at 1500 KC on most sets back then. It's a cheap gimmick that acts as a selling feature, ad an extra scale, and a couple more turns of wire on each coil with a tap, and you have an extra band. What it probably does is short out the extra part of the coils in one mode verses the other.
Regards
Arran