[OldRestorer]

Ok so what is so special about it?

3 people were going on about the difference from the later 20 console. 
It ended up selling for around $200.00.

[PhilcoPhan1936]

Nice! Makes me want to tackle my 95 Lowboy!

[morzh]

This is as much a 20 as I am Frank Sinatra.

Isn't that the 87 from Quakertown we saw here another day?

[Ron Ramirez]

^ What Mike said. That isn't a 20, it's an 87.

[OldRestorer]

Weird.....
I swear he said it was an early 20.....
He said something about the extra transformers?

Too leggy for me either way

[morzh]

This type chassis with its very characteristic look was used in those radios that came before 20, including their first superhet, the 111/112.
The 20 had smaller chassis that was the first Baby-grand and would fit in a cathedral tabletop. The previous one would not; the only tabletop it would fit into was a 511.

Let alone the fact that the dial in all of these was the rotating cylinder with the surface facing the operator and so the numbers moved up-down, while in the 20 it was a circular sector type and the numbers moved left-right.

Another tell-tell sign also is the tube shield.
And, of course, the face with the knobs widely spaced in the 85 and such, vs the small triangle in the 20.

[Arran]

If someone paid $200 for that model 87 they obviously didn't get out much, they should have gone for a highboy cabinet version at least.
Regards
Arran