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Philco 70 Found + 16B Questions
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Some of you may remember "Phil's Pholly" a while back when I pounced on a Philco 70 buy-it-now at an irresistibly low price only to find I had bought only a bare cabinet. Well today I picked up a 70 locally that had broken grillwork, but otherwise complete. I am going to swap the face of the cabinets to make one nice one. Any suggestions on how to go about separating the front from the sides without damaging either?

The seller might be willing to swap a very nice looking, unrestored, shouldered tombstone which he thought was a 16B. After some research I think it may have actually been a '35 118B since it seemed squatter than I expected. The light wasn't the greatest in the attic and I hadn't boned up on what to look for in advance. I'll send him a photo of each to double check. I'm not really after the 118. The set had all four knobs of the 1936 arrow style. If it is a 16B, which appears to have only been made the first six months of the year, could it be that a late production set came from the factory with the '36 knobs?

Phil aka Philbert Q. Desenex - Twin Cities, MN


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Philco 70 Found + 16B Questions - by Uffda - 03-30-2010, 09:10 PM
Re: Philco 70 Found + 16B Questions - by Uffda - 03-31-2010, 02:03 PM



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