[Ron Ramirez]

Okay...let me repeat post #5 in this thread:

Definitely an export model; 115 volts notwithstanding. Philco did not use metal tags on their 1930s radios intended for sale within the USA, they used the gold foil stickers instead. (And from the 1935 model year on, the blue stickers with white border and lettering; green for battery sets; black for AC/DC sets).

I do not know why they chose to use metal tags on their export models.

Maybe some countries required a more permanent model tag? (That's another SWAG.)

So: USA-made Philco home radios of the mid-1930s intended for sale within the USA do not use metal tags, they use paper stickers.

Examples:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/assets/44label.jpg]

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/assets/40130_label.jpg]

As Arran correctly stated, Canadian-built Philco radios of the mid-1930s do use metal tags.

USA-made Philco radios intended for export use metal tags instead of paper stickers. Whether or not the "Chassis Type" has an "E" after it is irrelevant.

Another thing. When I used to do radio repair as a business, one of my best clients hired me to restore the chassis of a 16B cathedral. It happened to have been built for export to Mexico. It, too, had a metal tag - because it was not intended for sale inside the USA.

Got it yet, kids?

It looks like Carlos' 144 has some sort of jack on the back of the chassis. That would explain the "325" code - USA-built Philcos intended for export, and with code numbers starting with 3 usually have phono jacks, and it appears the radio in question does. Maybe it does, and maybe I'm not really seeing a 1/4 inch jack on the back of the chassis. But the Philco schematics I have seen over the years bear this out.

Is this good enough? Or shall we go investigate which brand of toilet paper Jim Skinner was using when the 144s were being built?