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Unidentified Philco Bakelite
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06-10-2025, 04:03 PM
This unit just became available on a local Canadian marketplace. The seller is unable to find a model number on the back panel. Just wondering if anybody recognizes it.

   
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06-10-2025, 04:14 PM
The knobs I would guess are not original. Paul
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06-10-2025, 04:26 PM
Looks like a Tropic of some sort.
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06-10-2025, 06:18 PM
Possibly a UK radio. I make this presumption based on the Long Wave band. A photo of the back available? Take care, - Gary
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06-10-2025, 08:02 PM
It's a British Philco, likely from the early 1950s. It has a very common layout for British sets starting in the post war era, a vertical slide rule dial, with short, medium, and long wave bands, all measured in meters rather then by frequency.
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