[Ron Ramirez]

Here's a picture at the Radio Attic Archives which should help more than anything:

https://www.radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=6071

That T8-18 looks like it has a good original finish, and the decals are correct.

Oh, I really don't know that much about RCA. You can credit the late Doug Houston's influence (plus I have what was once his set of RCA Red Books). He loved his RCAs just as much as his Philcos. Because of his influence, I now can appreciate mid-30s RCAs, and I now understand why he spoke of them so favorably. Of course I also have my own memories of one of my very first antique radios, an RCA 5T1 which was an amazing performer for a five tube set with no RF amp - on the AM band, anyway (as I recall, it wasn't so hot on SW).

And you're right, a lot of the photos in the Red Books are tiny and it is difficult to make out details.