Beautiful Working Prewar Philco Wood Tube Radio

Beautiful, working, prewar philco wood table radio. This set dates to the 1940 model year. Beautiful, original finish, it is for the discriminating person who values originality in their collectibles/antiques. This finish is as nice as one could ever expect to fidn on a 68+ year old set.

This unit stands in direct contrast to some of those refinished sets you see here on ebay that say professionally refinished with grain fillers, toners and lacquers, only to look like a craft fair/high school student job that you could scratch your fingernail in the exposed wood grain and have the wrong amount of luster in the refinish- and many times looking bleached in tone and flat/lifeless with no reflectivity. The wood used on this set was of a higher grade, the sister set to this- the model 40-135, had just one shortwave band instead of two, and is used a lower grade of wood. Unit has original knobs, crystal clear dial lens (the photos show reflections of me and my camera), grille cloth, upper front center philco decal, and knob function decals, which are excellent and complete (they usually are the first thing the wear- in my photo i moved a bit so it appears blurry in the photo, but not in person), and pressboard back. The original station tab call letter markers are in their brass pocket.

The set plays loudly, clearly with good tone, no hum- on all three bands. It has the usual am/broadcast band, as well as two full coverage shortwave bands featuring the international broadcasters. Just tonight, i heard russia, china, japan, cuba, spain, and canada. The set features pushbutton tuning (in addition to the usual dial tuning), so you can zip to your favorite stations. They function quietly and smoothly.