[Eric Smith]

Beautiful radios.

It's too bad that so many of these have suffered damage to the fragile grillework over the decades. Eric, you are indeed fortunate that the grilles on your sets are in such good shape.

You're so right about that Ron.  I got the first one from a fellow who ran a now defunct website called www.AmRadios.com.  He lived in Florida and managed to ship that thing to Baltimore MD where I lived at the time without a scratch.  It was one of the best packing jobs I've ever seen.  The second one I got off Craigslist from a fellow living in Center Moriches in LI New York.  I had to drive up to Freeport where my family home is and pick up a bunch of stuff for my wife given to her by my Mom.  I took a box along with some bubble wrap and placed the Philco 20 Deluxe in that and transported it back to PA with no problem.  That was a fortunate trip in that I didn't hit a major pothole on the trip back like I later hit on the Belt Parkway on a subsequent visit up there the following month; an impact so severe it caused the rear of my car to go airborne for an instant and jarred loose a bunch of tubes I had in a 1949 GE 10T5 TV I had just purchased in the trunk.  The impact of that pothole was so great I'm surprised the TV wasn't wrecked.