[Arran]

Well it was a budget set made for the depression market, A.K had a good reputation, but Philco, whom also operated in the same city, was hard to beat as competition. Mike is right, it does sort of follow the lead of a model 80, 81, or 84 Philco, I believe all of which used modern 6.3 volt tubes, and was priced at under $20, the ads I found for this suggest it was $22.50, which doesn't sound like much but $2.50 was a few weeks worth of groceries in 1935. On the other had it has a much larger speaker then an 80 series Philco, those had 5'' speakers, that A.K looks like it had at least an 8'', so they must have sounded better.
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Arran