[Arran]

Not only are the cabinets different but the chassis are different as well due to the knob layout. For Philco to market these as the same model was utterly stupid. The more I get into this I'm now finding there are two different "late" model 38L cabinets.

Lets me try an explain again, the photo in the gallery is not of a model 38L as there is no photo of a model 38L in the gallery, it is of another model that happened to share the same cabinet design as a 38L, this is why the control locations do not match your set. Philco used to do this, they would produce one given style of cabinet and fit several different chassis in the same cabinet with a different model number with a different front panel. A recent example in another thread is the model 643 that Bob is working on, his is a battery set but philco used a similar cabinet for a Philco 650 which is an AC operated set. The Philco model numbers relate to the chassis, it has nothing to do with the cabinet, a model 38 is still a model 38 regardless of what cabinet they mounted the chassis into, it's the letter after it that denotes what cabinet style the set has, "L" stands for lowboy, "H" stands for highboy, "B" stands for "Baby Grand", "X" means that the cabinet is fully skirted and has an inclined speaker board, "M" means modern style.
Regards
Arran