[Arran]

That thing has a funny odor to it. Notice that there is no brace across the rear of the cabinet at the very bottom. Cabinets just aren't built that way. Further, the speaker is right smack at the bottom of the cabinet. That's another suspicious looking thing about it. Somehow or another, something just has to have been removed from the lower part of the cabinet, and it's hard to figure out what it is. I'm sure that the cabinet isn't all there.

Of course, I haven't seen every Philco set that's ever been made, but of what I've seen, and even have, Philco just idn't make cabinets like that.

As I mentioned before there is a series of Canadian Westinghouse sets built in just that way, that look like the top end of a console, the dial on top and speaker below layout in a table model may be almost unknown stateside but isn't in Canada or in Britain, Rogers, Westinghouse, and Electrohome built sets with this sort of layout up here, but Westinghouse was the main builder of table top consoles. I also have a 40-780 Philco Tropic much along the same lines. If it was a cut down console it has to be the most professional job of this that I have ever seen, if the starting bid wasn't so high I would be tempted to bid on this set. Again, does anyone have a photo of the backside of a 41-624P console? I'm very curious as to the layout of parts, it looks like the record player was behind a drawer right bellow the controls.
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Arran