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Originally Posted by Captainclock
I wish there was a little more to go by than just the image that you have posted here (like a picture of the house in question that the radio in question was in, or maybe pictures of any built-in loud speakers that may or may not of been present in the house that may of been wired to this radio, because that would confirm whether or not I was right in saying that it might of been part of an early whole house intercom/radio system similar to the old NuTone systems that were installed in homes for years, instead of being just some random radio chassis stuck in a wall for no apparent reason except that it just looked cool and that it really never served any sort of functional purpose except for decoration.
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Home intercom systems were rare to non-existant before the 60's. People did like to build radios and TVs into walls, before then though. I had a 40's AA5 chassis (that supposedly originally had a Catlin face) which was designed to be mounted in a wall....It had hinges on the bottom front, and it's original cord was about 4" long. Heck even the Whitehouse had a built in TV for a while.