[Gene Pederson]

SteveJB,
The set was here in New Hampshire where I live. It was a 2 1/2 hr drive one way to get it.

Arran,
I believe the wood strips are cabinet reinforcement strips. The speaker is on an inclined sounding board similar to Philco's. I consider this to be a very well constructed cabinet which was obviously built to last.
I would be interested to verify that the tube shields were supposed to be goat shields, are you making this determination by the shape of the supports? Since I have no radios that use them I would like to know.

If you use an in home transmitter it really doesn't matter if there are any "dead" bands, you play what you like.
I would imagine in 1937 that no one was considering what frequencies would still be in use in 2013, let alone that the actual radio would still be here. AND at that time a large number of radios were sold by the various department stores since that is where most people did their shopping.

I have absolutely no idea who manufactured this particular radio for Sears. Perhaps some of the other members who have this knowledge could chime in here.

What I do know is that I have been looking for this particular radio and it presented itself to me, so I purchased it and am extremely happy with it.

Gene