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Unidentified Philco Bakelite
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06-10-2025, 08:02 PM
It's a British Philco, likely from the early 1950s. It has a very common layout for British sets starting in the post war era, a vertical slide rule dial, with short, medium, and long wave bands, all measured in meters rather then by frequency.
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Unidentified Philco Bakelite - by jrmott2 - 06-10-2025, 04:03 PM
RE: Unidentified Philco Bakelite - by morzh - 06-10-2025, 04:26 PM
RE: Unidentified Philco Bakelite - by GarySP - 06-10-2025, 06:18 PM
RE: Unidentified Philco Bakelite - by Arran - 06-10-2025, 08:02 PM



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