The PHILCO Phorum

Guys,

Need some help to ID this tombstone cabinet. What's interesting is the metal escutcheon around the tuning and tone controls.

Thanks.

I'm not sure what Philco model that is, but that metal escutcheon is not original.  It came off one of those cheap Chinese reproduction radios, and this looks like the radio it came from:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Divine-Model-Ant...3cfd532f09

Somebody butchered that philco    

Looks like a 620 that someone routered out the two new holes on each side of the dial. Freds right, butchered.

Yep, looks like a butchered 620 cabinet!

Mike and Crist are both correct. It appears to have once been a 620B cabinet that is now butchered.

 If that cabinet were cheap enough I would buy it if I ran across it, for cabinet parts. My Philco 620's cabinet was the victim of a moron with a disk and a drum sander, with which they mutilated the poplar millwork on either side of the front control panel.
Regards
Arran

(07-06-2015, 02:54 AM)Arran Wrote: [ -> ] If that cabinet were cheap enough I would buy it if I ran across it, for cabinet parts. My Philco 620's cabinet was the victim of a moron with a disk and a drum sander, with which they mutilated the poplar millwork on either side of the front control panel.
Regards
Arran

Yes, a good point!

To bad someone defaced that radio cabinet. What does it say on the medal face plate?

With the six whiskers it makes it a 116 or maybe 650.  The 620 has only four whiskers.

That escutcheon doesn't belong there.  Why do people sand finishes??  That just drives me up a wall.

Well, I won it and another 630 tombstone cabinet and chassis at the auction. Paid $25 for the lot.