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Correct grille cloth for 1935 89B table model - NostalgiaRadioTime - 01-17-2014

Can someone point me to the correct name / pattern grille cloth on the Richmond Designs website (http://www.richmonddesignsinc.com/ ) for this 89B? Many thanks.


RE: Correct grille cloth for 1935 89B table model - skyscraper - 01-18-2014

I think whisky rayon is the closest there is.


RE: Correct grille cloth for 1935 89B table model - Ron Ramirez - 01-18-2014

For a 1935 89B? Like this?

http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1935a.htm#af

That would have used this:

[Image: http://web.archive.org/web/20051103174638/http://grillecloth.com/jpeg/num5.jpg]

Pattern #5, once available from (the now defunct) Radio Grille Cloth Headquarters. No one reproduces it anymore.

By the way, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine makes it possible to see what we once had available to us, as a reference:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060102022543/http://www.grillecloth.com/


RE: Correct grille cloth for 1935 89B table model - NostalgiaRadioTime - 01-18-2014

Yes, that's the one, Ron. Many thanks for the info.