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This is Philco related- Promise! Just read through...
I was shopping in JC Penney's this evening with my steady-Donna- and I noticed one of those "Retro-repro" radios with am/fm/cd/turntable and who knows what else. I noticed behind the display of the radio, boxes of small tables for them. An interesting looking table, I contemplated the use of one, not for the retro-repro, but as a record holding base for my 1929 RCA Victrola portable. As I looked at the picture on the box, the design of the logo piece caught my eye. A round disk, with some dark gold trim, some divergent lines going vertically from left of center, and a "globe like gridlines, and info in a curved section in the middle. Taking a closer look, I realized I was looking at the dial of my 1937 Philco 37-650! A virtually identical photo, with the changes made for the new product! They had the same one on the retro-repro radio. I found this very interesting, and wish I had a picture to post of it.
I didn't buy the table- I figured I'd rather have an original...lol
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That's neat about the 1937 Philco dial...
Philco did make some tables to go with the Baby Grand (cathedral) sets, but they are fairly rare and hard to find.
I have one of them, the June 1931 version of the Baby Grand table:
[Image: http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k420/.../table.jpg]
These sold for only $1.55 in 1931, and only 6000 were made.
An earlier version, with turned legs, also exists. I saw one once at Radiofest in Elgin one year. I have a photo of it somewhere.
While it was made for a Model 70 or 90, mine is rather rickety and I don't trust it to hold one of those up anymore, so it sits with nothing heavier than a small table model set.
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Do you think Norm Abrahm ("New Yankee Workshop") could crank out a couple of these? 
Actually, if one was handy in the wood shop, it doesn't look like it would be too difficult to build a replica. All you'd need are some measurements and some time (yeah, right!), and you're set.
Unfortunately, I find myself with not much time for stuff I need to do, let alone would like to do. Bummer. 
Anyone else with that problem? 
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With as many shop tools as that New Yankee Workshop guy has, you would think he could reproduce ANY Philco cabinet or cabinet part if he wished to do so.
I know what you mean about a lack of time, Bill...I know what you mean...
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Wonder if he could make me a new front for a later model 20(with the "columns". Mine has the usual broken out sections missing form the grille work...
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Dick Oliver's your man if you need a new Model 20 front panel. His contact info may be found here.
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Just for your amusement, here's a picture of the early style Baby Grand Table:
[Image: http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k420/...table2.jpg]
There's a Model 70 on our favorite online auction site, second time it's been on. That table may - or may not - be a variant of the early style table.
http://cgi.ebay.com/6587401645
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