[Jayce]

Ok, this wasn't planned at all. I've been sick all day and got a call right after work from a shop I know in Canton, Ohio about some 'goodies' he had just gotten in from an elderly gentleman he knows. Apparently, this guy had inherited his parents old home down in Marrietta, Ohio and was cleaning it up for a sale. The radio that caught my attention is when my buddy said one of the radios pulled from the attic and now in his shop was a Philco model 30 in a fairly good cabinet. Well, I hobbled up there and took a look, then placed my money down and brought the console home. The only thing that made me take pause is the cabinet. It is not like the 30 lowboy pictured here and more like the late version of my 87 lowboy cabinet. It looks all correct though and I am wondering if Philco actually stuck early model 30 units into leftover cabinets? With 8 tubes, this seems to be a fairly deluxe set for a battery set of the time.