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How do you find the model number on the record changer?
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Here is the 48-1284, from original mid-season 1948 Philco information.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/image...81284c.jpg]

Now, the 49-1609, from a 1949 Philco catalog.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/image...491609.jpg]

The cabinets are identical!

Quote:...and now it makes sense. If you were a Philco customer who bought a console in 48, just as the first LPs were coming out, you might have felt your console was made immediately obsolete. I'm sure the local Philco dealer would have offered a retrofit with a 49 dual tonearm changer.

Of course this is a good possibility. This is why we are finding many 1941 and 1942 Philco radio-phonographs today which no longer have their original Beam of Light changers, but a newer one instead.

There is a 46-1213 in the big antique mall in Edinburgh, Indiana (Exit 76 Antique Mall, if anyone's interested in it) which has a 1950s era V-M changer in place of the original 78 rpm (only) changer.

It happens.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN





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